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coleopter (plural coleopters)

1. (zoology) One of the Coleoptera; a beetle.
2. A type of VTOL aircraft which uses a ducted fan as the primary fuselage of the entire aircraft.
   • 1955 May, “Why You May Fly in a Barrel”, in Popular Science, volume 166, number 5, page 100:
     But the coleopter, with its tubular wing, belongs in a class by itself.

• “coleopter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Borrowed from French coléoptère.

coleopter n (plural coleoptere)

1. beetle

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