Definition of Longicorn beetle

1. Noun. Long-bodied beetle having very long antennae.

Exact synonyms: Long-horned Beetle, Longicorn
Generic synonyms: Beetle
Group relationships: Cerambycidae, Family Cerambycidae
Specialized synonyms: Sawyer, Sawyer Beetle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Longicorn Beetle

longhands
longhauling
longhead
longheaded
longheaded thimbleweed
longheadedness
longheads
longheld
longhorn
longhorn beetle
longhorn beetles
longhorns
longhouse
longhouses
longicorn
longicorn beetle (current term)
longicornia
longicorns
longies
longilateral
longiloquence
longiloquent
longimanous
longimetry
longing
longingly
longings
longinquity
longipalp
longipennate

Literary usage of Longicorn beetle

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1845)
"Description of an apparently new species of longicorn beetle from Mexico in the collection of the British Museum. By ADAM WHITE, Assistant Zool. Dep. Brit. ..."

2. Report on the Injurious Insects and Other Animals Observed in the Midland by Walter Edward Collinge (1907)
"The Large Poplar longicorn beetle. Fig. 2.—Larva of the same. Fig. 3. ... Burrows of the Small Poplar longicorn beetle, in an aspen twig, showing two flight ..."

3. The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation by James William Tutt, Malcolm Burr (1890)
"By H. WILLOUGHBY ELLIS, FES During last year Mr. F. Gilbert Smith took some larvae of a longicorn beetle in the New Forest in Scotch fir, and, after seeing ..."

4. The Entomologist; an Illustrated Journal of General Entomology by Edward Newman, Royal Entomological Society of London (1895)
"Mr. Waterhouse exhibited a living larva of a longicorn beetle found in a boot-tree which had been in constant use by the owner for fourteen years, ..."

5. The Indian Forester (1899)
"... of the longicorn beetle, ... damage which may be caused, if the Longicorn beetle, which is doing such material damage at ..."

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