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Definition of Snout beetle
1. Noun. Small weevil having a prolonged snout; destructive to e.g. grains and nuts.
Definition of Snout beetle
1. Noun. A weevil; specifically, a true weevil (beetle belonging to the family ''Curculionidae'') ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Snout Beetle
Literary usage of Snout beetle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of Fruit Insects by Mark Vernon Slingerland, Cyrus Richard Crosby (1914)
"THE IMBRICATED SNOUT-BEETLE ... imbricatus Say Strawberry plants are sometimes
defoliated by this greenish- brown snout-beetle s| to J inch in length. ..."
2. Tree Planting on Streets and Highways by William Freeman Fox (1903)
"... cottony scale insect, elm leaf beetle, bag worm, fall web worm, spiny elm
caterpillar, elm borer, elm bark louse, and elm snout beetle. ..."
3. A Manual on the Study of Insects by John Henry Comstock, Anna Botsford Comstock (1895)
"This is an oval, black snout-beetle, lightly covered with - dark-brown scales,
and about one fourth inch in f. A length. It is very destructive to roses ..."
4. Injurious Insects: How to Recognize and Control Them by Walter Collins O'Kane (1912)
"Occasionally the leaves of clover are eaten by a brownish snout beetle, ...
It is a rather large snout beetle, five eighths of an inch long, its wing covers ..."
5. Animal Communities in Temperate America: As Illustrated in the Chicago by Victor Ernest Shelford (1913)
"... 12-punctata) (156), and the salt-meadow snout-beetle ... another
snout-beetle (Cryptocephalus venustus), common garden pests, as well as the
leaf-beetle ..."
6. Report of the Illinois State Entomologist Concerning Operations Under the by Illinois State Entomologist (1905)
"This weevil or snout-beetle (Fig. 98, a, b) is about three eighths of an inch
long, strongly convex in form, brownish, with grayish crossbars on the back. ..."
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