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Webster 1913 Edition


Longicornia

‖

Lonˊgi-cor′ni-a

,
Noun.
pl.
[NL., fr. L.
longus
long +
cornu
horn.]
(Zool.)
A division of beetles, including a large number of species, in which the antennæ are very long. Most of them, while in the larval state, bore into the wood or beneath the bark of trees, and some species are very destructive to fruit and shade trees. See
Apple borer
, under
Apple
, and
Locust beetle
, under
Locust
.