curculio

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a weevil of the genus Curculio, especially one whose larvae develop inside acorns or nuts

   The female curculio bored into the acorn and laid an egg inside it.

Borrowed from New Latin Curculio, the genus name, from Latin curculio ("weevil"). English natural-history writing also used the lowercase noun for members of this group of long-snouted beetles.

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