curculionid

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curculionid (plural curculionids)

  1. Any weevil of the family Curculionidae
    • 2022 May 14, Ted C. MacRae, Cupressaceae[1]:
      At first, I swept the lowest-growing plants, collecting a variety of mostly chrysomelids and curculionids and even one Agrilus sp., before moving to beating along the sunny edges of the patches of taller shrubs and collecting similar species (but no Agrilus sp.).