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Longicorn   Listen
noun
Longicorn  n.  (Zool.) One of the Longicornia.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Longicorn" Quotes from Famous Books



... antennae beyond it is so small and slender as to be scarcely visible, and thus an excellent substitute is obtained for the short clubbed antennae of the Corynomalus. Erythroplatis corallifer is another curious broad flat beetle, that no one would take for a Longicorn, since it almost exactly resembles Cephalodonta spinipes, one of the commonest of the South American Hispidae; and what is still more remarkable, another Longicorn of a distinct group, Streptolabis hispoides, was found ...
— Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection - A Series of Essays • Alfred Russel Wallace



Words linked to "Longicorn" :   sawyer, longicorn beetle, beetle, sawyer beetle



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