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‖ Curculio Entom.|kɜːˈkjuːlɪəʊ|
[a. L. curculio, -ōnem corn-weevil.]
A Linnæan genus of Beetles, containing the Weevils. Now applied especially to the common fruit-weevils, which are very destructive to plums.
1756P. Browne Jamaica (1779) 429 The streaked shining Curculio. Ibid. 430 Curculio..This insect is very destructive to flour as well as to most sorts of grain. 1860Emerson Cond. Life, Fate Wks. (Bohn) II. 327 Such an one has curculios, borers, knife-worms. 1882Garden 25 Mar. 191/3 The Curculio has made the cultivation of the Plum impossible in Eastern America.
Hence curˌculioˈnideous a, belonging to the Curculionidæ or weevil-family. curˈculionist, a specialist in the study of the Curculionidæ.
1881Athenæum No. 2827. 904 A curculionideous larva, found feeding in the bulbs of lilies. 1874Mivart in Contemp. Rev. XXIV. 362 That this naturalist is a Carabidist, and that a Curculionist. |