Brachelytra

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Brachelytra \Brach*el"y*tra\, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. (?) short + ?
     a covering.] (Zool.)
     A group of beetles having short elytra, as the rove beetles.
     [1913 Webster] brach