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scolytusnouna genus of bark beetles (subfamily Scolytinae).
scythianoun(historical) A geographic region encompassing the Pontic-Caspian steppe in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, inhabited by nomadic Scythians from at least the 11th century BCE to the 2nd century CE.
scythiannounAn inhabitant of Scythia.
scyllanounA dangerous rock on the Italian coast opposite the whirlpool Charybdis on the coast of Sicily. The passage between Scylla and Charybdis was formerly considered perilous; hence, the saying between Scylla and Charybdis signifies a great peril on either hand.
scybalanoun(obsolete, medicine) a hardened mass of feces
scolytidnounA bark beetle (of Scolytus)
scytalenoun(historical) A cylinder with a strip of parchment wound around it on which a message is written, used for cryptography by the ancient Spartans.
scolopendriumnouna fern thought to resemble a millipede
scopariusnounThe dried tops of the plant Cytisus scoparius, formerly used in medicine.
scolexnoun(zoology) The structure at the front end of a tapeworm which, in the adult, has suckers and hooks by which it attaches itself to a host.
phyllodynoun(botany) The abnormal development of floral parts into leafy structures.
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epyllionnoun(literary) A brief narrative poem with a romantic or mythological theme.
scythiansnounThe Scythians (or ) or Scyths (but note Scytho- in composition) and sometimes also referred to as the Pontic Scythians, were an ancient Eastern Iranic equestrian nomadic people who had migrated during the 9th to 8th centuries BC from Central Asia to the Pontic Steppe in modern-day Ukraine and Southern Russia, where they remained established from the 7th century BC until the 3rd century BC.
scolytidaenounlarge family of bark-boring or wood-boring short-beaked beetles; very destructive to forest and fruit trees
scyphistomanoun(zoology) An individual cell in a stage of the life cycle of a true jellyfish (class Scyphozoa), a colony of such cells, when it resembles a polyp and breeds asexually by strobilation.
scoparianoun
scopolianouna genus of four species of flowering plants in the family Solanaceae, native to Europe and Asia.
scillanounA plant of the genus Scilla; a squill.

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