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Definition: billbeetles
Curculio
\Cur*cu"li*o\ (k?r-r?"l?-?), n.; pl.
Curculios (-?z).
[L., a grain weevil.] (Zo["o]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.
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