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longicorn

longicorn adjective: long-horned.

Adjective

longicorn

  1. Long-horned.
  2. (obsolete) Of or relating to the former taxonomic insect group Longicorniahttps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Longicornia, encompassing numerous beetles with long antennae. Some are now classified as Cerambycidae (longhorn beetles).
    • I must name Mr. F. P. Pascoe, late President of the Entomological Society of London, who had almost completed the classification and description of my large collection of Longicorn beetles (now in his possession), comprising more than a thousand species, of which at least nine hundred were...1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page ix

Noun

longicorn (plural longicorns)

  1. (obsolete) One of the Longicorniahttps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Longicornia, a former taxonomic insect group of long-horned beetles.
    • Mr. William Wilson Saunders has kindly allowed me to figure the curious horned flies; and to Mr. Pascoe I am indebted for a loan of two of the very rare Longicorns which appear in the plate of Bornean beetles.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page xiii
    • In the recently published volumes on the Longicorn and Malacoderm beetles of Central America^([108]) there are numbers of beautifully coloured figures of the new species; and on looking over them we are struck by the curious resemblance of some of the Longicorns to species of the Malacoderm group.1889, Alfred Russel Wallace, Darwinism, page 222
  2. (dated, still found in many vernacular names) Synonym of longhorn beetle.
    Synonyms:
    longhorn beetle

Synonyms of longicorn

Forms of longicorn

plurallongicorns

Origin of longicorn

From Latin longus (“long”) + cornu (“horn”). Compare French longicorne.

Words formed from longicorn

Questions about longicorn

What does longicorn mean?
Longicorn means long-horned.
What part of speech is longicorn?
Longicorn can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near longicorn in the dictionary

  1. longicaudoside
  2. longicidal
  3. longicone
  4. longicones
  5. longiconic
  6. longicorn
  7. longicorns
  8. longidome
  9. longidomes
  10. longidomic
  11. longidorid

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