单词 | rhynchophorous |
释义 | rhynchophorousadj. Entomology. Now rare. Of or relating to the former group Rhynchophora (now the superfamily Curculionoidea) of beetles having the head prolonged into a beak or snout, comprising the weevils and related forms. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [adjective] > belonging to Rhyncophora rhynchophorous1826 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. 386 Rhyncophorous beetles (Curculio). 1874 Amer. Naturalist 8 390 I therefore prepared a series of dissections of each of the well recognized Rhynchophorous types within my reach. 1915 Proc. Entomol. Soc. Washington 17 154 (title) The secretions employed by rhynchophorous larvae in cocoon-making. 1961 Coleopterists Bull. 15 41 This writer has been engaged in a study of the comparative morphology of Scolytoid and other Rhynchophorous beetles. 1981 Coleopterists Bull. 35 189 Van Emden (1938) dealt with the taxonomy of 8 subfamilies of rhynchophorous larvae. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1826 |
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