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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Curculio \Cur*cu"li*o\ (k?r-r?"l?-?), n.; pl. {Curculios} (-[?]z). [L., a grain weevil.] (Zo[94]l.) One of a large group of beetles ({Rhynchophora}) of many genera; -- called also {weevils}, {snout beetles}, {billbeetles}, and {billbugs}. Many of the species are very destructive, as the plum curculio, the corn, grain, and rice weevils, etc. | |
