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totalum

totalum [dub., perh. a misreading], (understood as) wasp-waisted insect. apes cunctis ~is preminent dignitate [gl.: omne hujusmodi volatile, ut apis et vespa et scarabeus, ‘~um’ dicitur ‥ quasi ‘totum alterum’ quia scilicet duo corpora videtur habere] Neckam NR II 163.

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