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curculionid

curculionid noun: any weevil of the family Curculionidae.

Noun

curculionid (plural curculionids)

  1. Any weevil of the family Curculionidae
    • At first, I swept the lowest-growing plants, collecting a variety of mostly chrysomelids and curculionids and even one Agrilus sp., before moving to beating along the sunny edges of the patches of taller shrubs and collecting similar species (but no Agrilus sp.).2022 May 14, Ted C. MacRae, Cupressaceae

Forms of curculionid

pluralcurculionids

Questions about curculionid

What does curculionid mean?
Curculionid means any weevil of the family Curculionidae.
What part of speech is curculionid?
Curculionid is a noun.
What is the plural of curculionid?
The plural of curculionid is curculionids.

Words near curculionid in the dictionary

  1. curcubit
  2. curcubitacin
  3. curculigoside
  4. curculigosides
  5. curculio
  6. curculionid
  7. curculionidous
  8. curculionids
  9. curculionine
  10. curculionoid
  11. curculionoids

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