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snout beetle

snout beetle

noun

  1. another name for weevil
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of snout beetle1

An Americanism dating back to 1860–65
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Word History and Origins

Origin of snout beetle1

C19: so named because of its long proboscis
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Example Sentences

The insect is a small, brownish-black snout beetle, somewhat less than one-half inch in length.

This weevil is a small gray or reddish-brown snout-beetle hardly over a quarter of an inch in length.

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