- plural of curculio.
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Such an one has curculios, borers, knife-worms: a swindler ate him first, then a client, then a quack, then a smooth, plausible gentleman, bitter and selfish as Moloch.
From The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse by Various
Scrobe, skrōb, n. a groove in the rostrum of weevils or curculios, or on the outer side of the mandible.—adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
In 1946 the part of the chestnut crop that was harvested was infested with the chestnut curculios.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting Guelph, Ontario, September 3, 4, 5, 1947 by Northern Nut Growers Association
These, with 28 other species, destroy enormous numbers of locusts, grasshoppers, crane-fly larvae, mosquito larvae, army-worms, cut-worms, cotton-worms, boll-weevils, curculios, wire-worms and clover-leaf weevils.
From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by Hornaday, William Temple
The arsenate of lead in the mixture will control the young of leaf eating insects and precocious plum curculios.
