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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In entomology, a subfamily of rhynchophorous beetles, of the family Curculionidœ or weevils, typified by the genus Apion, and characterized by straight antennæ, a lateral fold on the inner surface of the elytra, a horizontal pygidium, and an abdomen alike in both sexes. The species are mostly very small.

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