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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of serricorn beetles, of the family Ptinidæ and subfamily Bostrichinæ, having the antennæ with a three-jointed club, and the tarsi long and slender with a very short first joint.
  • noun [lowercase] A species of this genus: as, the bamboo sinoxylon, a wood-boring beetle of China and the East Indies, frequently imported with bamboo.

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