Definition of "elytra" [elytra]

• Plural form of elytron. (noun)

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• "I will be many, buzz even as a swarm of motorbikes, be borne, body by flying body out into the Brazilian wilderness beneath the stars, lofted under those beautiful and un-fused elytra which we will all hold over our backs."
• "Its shield-shaped thorax was pitted like tooled leather and its elytra wing cases were closed over powerful wings."
• "The beetle stood full-square in the yellow centre of an ox-eye daisy eating its pollen, rays of white petals around him: Oedemera noblis, a thick-legged flower beetle of shiny metallic green with slightly parted elytra wing-cases and strangely thickened thighs on the rear pair of legs used in mating."