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Curculio
(gcide) | Curculio \Cur*cu"li*o\ (k?r-r?"l?-?), n.; pl. Curculios (-?z).
[L., a grain weevil.] (Zool.)
One of a large group of beetles (Rhynchophora) of many
genera; -- called also weevils, snout beetles,
billbeetles, and billbugs. Many of the species are very
destructive, as the plum curculio, the corn, grain, and rice
weevils, etc.
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Curculionidous
(gcide) | Curculionidous \Cur`cu*li*on"i*dous\ (k?r`-k?-l?-?n"?-d?s), a.
(Zool.)
Pertaining to the Curculionide[ae], or weevil tribe.
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Curculios
(gcide) | Curculio \Cur*cu"li*o\ (k?r-r?"l?-?), n.; pl. Curculios (-?z).
[L., a grain weevil.] (Zool.)
One of a large group of beetles (Rhynchophora) of many
genera; -- called also weevils, snout beetles,
billbeetles, and billbugs. Many of the species are very
destructive, as the plum curculio, the corn, grain, and rice
weevils, etc.
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Grape curculio
(gcide) | Grape \Grape\, n. [OF. grape, crape, bunch or cluster of grapes,
F. grappe, akin to F. grappin grapnel, hook; fr. OHG. chrapfo
hook, G. krapfen, akin to E. cramp. The sense seems to have
come from the idea of clutching. Cf. Agraffe, Cramp,
Grapnel, Grapple.]
1. (Bot.) A well-known edible berry growing in pendent
clusters or bunches on the grapevine. The berries are
smooth-skinned, have a juicy pulp, and are cultivated in
great quantities for table use and for making wine and
raisins.
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2. (Bot.) The plant which bears this fruit; the grapevine.
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3. (Man.) A mangy tumor on the leg of a horse.
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4. (Mil.) Grapeshot.
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Grape borer. (Zool.) See Vine borer.
Grape curculio (Zool.), a minute black weevil ({Craponius
in[ae]qualis}) which in the larval state eats the interior
of grapes.
Grape flower, or
Grape hyacinth (Bot.), a liliaceous plant ({Muscari
racemosum}) with small blue globular flowers in a dense
raceme.
Grape fungus (Bot.), a fungus (Oidium Tuckeri) on
grapevines; vine mildew.
Grape hopper (Zool.), a small yellow and red hemipterous
insect, often very injurious to the leaves of the
grapevine.
Grape moth (Zool.), a small moth (Eudemis botrana), which
in the larval state eats the interior of grapes, and often
binds them together with silk.
Grape of a cannon, the cascabel or knob at the breech.
Grape sugar. See Glucose.
Grape worm (Zool.), the larva of the grape moth.
Sour grapes, things which persons affect to despise because
they can not possess them; -- in allusion to [AE]sop's
fable of the fox and the grapes.
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plum curculio
(gcide) | Plum \Plum\, n. [AS. pl[=u]me, fr. L. prunum; akin to Gr. ?, ?.
Cf. Prune a dried plum.]
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1. (Bot.) The edible drupaceous fruit of the {Prunus
domestica}, and of several other species of Prunus;
also, the tree itself, usually called plum tree.
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The bullace, the damson, and the numerous varieties
of plum, of our gardens, although growing into
thornless trees, are believed to be varieties of the
blackthorn, produced by long cultivation. --G.
Bentham.
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Note: Two or three hundred varieties of plums derived from
the Prunus domestica are described; among them the
greengage, the Orleans, the purple gage, or
Reine Claude Violette, and the German prune, are
some of the best known.
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Note: Among the true plums are;
Beach plum, the Prunus maritima, and its crimson or
purple globular drupes,
Bullace plum. See Bullace.
Chickasaw plum, the American Prunus Chicasa, and its
round red drupes.
Orleans plum, a dark reddish purple plum of medium size,
much grown in England for sale in the markets.
Wild plum of America, Prunus Americana, with red or
yellow fruit, the original of the Iowa plum and several
other varieties.
[1913 Webster] Among plants called plum, but of other
genera than Prunus, are;
Australian plum, Cargillia arborea and {Cargillia
australis}, of the same family with the persimmon.
Blood plum, the West African H[ae]matostaphes Barteri.
Cocoa plum, the Spanish nectarine. See under Nectarine.
Date plum. See under Date.
Gingerbread plum, the West African {Parinarium
macrophyllum}.
Gopher plum, the Ogeechee lime.
Gray plum, Guinea plum. See under Guinea.
Indian plum, several species of Flacourtia.
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2. A grape dried in the sun; a raisin.
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3. A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant
language, the sum of [pounds]100,000 sterling; also, the
person possessing it.
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4. Something likened to a plum in desirableness; a good or
choice thing of its kind, as among appointments,
positions, parts of a book, etc.; as, the mayor rewarded
his cronies with cushy plums, requiring little work for
handsome pay
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5. A color resembling that of a plum; a slightly grayish deep
purple, varying somewhat in its red or blue tint.
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Plum bird, Plum budder (Zool.), the European bullfinch.
Plum gouger (Zool.), a weevil, or curculio ({Coccotorus
scutellaris}), which destroys plums. It makes round holes
in the pulp, for the reception of its eggs. The larva
bores into the stone and eats the kernel.
Plum weevil (Zool.), an American weevil which is very
destructive to plums, nectarines, cherries, and many other
stone fruits. It lays its eggs in crescent-shaped
incisions made with its jaws. The larva lives upon the
pulp around the stone. Called also turk, and {plum
curculio}. See Illust. under Curculio.
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Quince curculio
(gcide) | Quince \Quince\ (kw[i^]ns), n. [Prob. a pl. from OE. quyne,
coin, OF. coin, cooin, F. coing, from L. Cydonius a quince
tree, as adj., Cydonian, Gr. ? Cydonian, ? ? a quince, fr. ?
Cydonia, a city in Crete, ? the Cydonians. Cf. Quiddany.]
1. The fruit of a shrub (Cydonia vulgaris) belonging to the
same tribe as the apple. It somewhat resembles an apple,
but differs in having many seeds in each carpel. It has
hard flesh of high flavor, but very acid, and is largely
used for marmalade, jelly, and preserves.
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2. (Bot.) a quince tree or shrub.
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Japan quince (Bot.), an Eastern Asiatic shrub ({Cydonia
Japonica}, formerly Pyrus Japonica) and its very
fragrant but inedible fruit. The shrub has very showy
flowers, usually red, but sometimes pink or white, and is
much grown for ornament.
Quince curculio (Zool.), a small gray and yellow curculio
(Conotrachelus crat[ae]gi) whose larva lives in quinces.
Quince tree (Bot.), the small tree (Cydonia vulgaris)
which produces the quince.
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curculionidae
(wn) | Curculionidae
n 1: true weevils: snout beetles [syn: Curculionidae, {family
Curculionidae}] |
family curculionidae
(wn) | family Curculionidae
n 1: true weevils: snout beetles [syn: Curculionidae, {family
Curculionidae}] |
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