Meanings (ES + gloss)
élitro
A sheath or outer covering, especially around the spinal cord or over the hindwings of certain insects.
In a corner, the Darkling Beetle rustles in its Cage, its Elytra the same unforgiving white as the great sand-waste call’d ‘Kalahari’ lying north of here […]
[…] the elytra covering the hind wings of the firefly lift like a light leather, suppler than any other beetle’s.
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