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scare-sleeps

scare-sleeps is the plural of scare-sleep.

Meaning of scare-sleep

Noun

scare-sleep (plural scare-sleeps)

  1. (obsolete) An insect, a lanternfly (Fulgora laternaria).
    • The other was a large fly, which Madam Merian, who gives a drawing of it, calls the vielleur, but which I have generally heard called the ſcare-ſleep by the Dutch.1796, J[ohn] G[abriel] Stedman, Narrative of a Five Years’ Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America; […], volume II, London: J[oseph] Johnson...

Questions about scare-sleeps

What is scare-sleeps the plural of?
Scare-sleeps is the plural of scare-sleep.

Words near scare-sleeps in the dictionary

  1. scare-lines
  2. scare-quote
  3. scare-quotes
  4. scare-roused
  5. scare-sleep
  6. scare-sleeps
  7. scare-the-birds
  8. scareability
  9. scareable
  10. scarebabe
  11. scarebabes

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