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Webster 1913 Edition

Rhynchophora

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Rhyn-choph′o-ra

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Noun.

pl.

[NL., fr. Gr.

ῥύγχοσ

snout +

φέρειν

to carry.]

(Zool.)

A group of Coleoptera having a snoutlike head; the snout beetles, curculios, or weevils.