Longicorn Definition

lŏnjĭ-kôrn
adjective
Having long feelers, or antennae, as the long-horned beetles.
Webster's New World
Of or relating to the longhorn beetles.
American Heritage
(zoology) Long-horned.
Wiktionary
noun

One of the Cerambycidae (longhorn beetles).

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Other Word Forms of Longicorn

Noun

Singular:
longicorn
Plural:
longicorns

Origin of Longicorn

  • From New Latin Longicornia former group name Latin longus long longitude Latin cornū horn ker-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin longus (“long") + cornu (“horn"). Compare French longicorne.

    From Wiktionary

Longicorn Sentence Examples

  • The elytra are equally reduced, and apparently for the same purpose, in an Australian Longicorn beetle (Esthesis ferrugineus), which, like so many wasp-like Hymenoptera, has the body banded red and black.

  • In the European Longicorn (Clytus arietis), on the other hand, the elytra are of normal length and are banded with yellow stripes.

  • Similar modification of the antennae in the Longicorn Estigmenida variabilis brings about the resemblance between this beetle and a beetle, Estigmena chinensis, one of the Phytophaga of the family Hispidae.

  • With the exception of the Asilid fly and perhaps some of the Longicorn and Phytophagous beetles, which are probably protected Batesian mimics, all the other species constituting the above-mentioned assemblage are, it is believed, Mullerian or synaposematic mimics.

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