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from The Century Dictionary.
- A section of tetramerous coleopterous insects, characterized by the (usual) prolongation of the head into a snout or proboscis (whence the name); the weevils, curculios, or snout-beetles.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) A group of Coleoptera having a snoutlike head; the snout beetles, curculios, or weevils.
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