Definitions for longicorn

longicorn lon·gi·corn

Spelling: [lon-ji-kawrn]
IPA: /ˈlɒn dʒɪˌkɔrn/

Longicorn is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 220 anagrams from letters in longicorn (cgilnnoor).

Definitions for longicorn

noun

  1. long-horned beetle.

adjective

  1. having long antennae.
  2. belonging or pertaining to the Cerambycidae, comprising the long-horned beetles.

Origin of longicorn

1840-50; New Latin longicornis long-horned, equivalent to longi- longi- + corn(ū) horn + -is adj. suffix

Examples for longicorn

These details tell us of three years of larval existence, a duration of life frequent in the longicorn series.

longicorn -ia: having the antennae as long or longer than the body; specifically the Cerambycid beetles.

But no other genus of longicorn, so far as I am aware, practises this craft.

Beetles of the longicorn tribe abound here; and to-day I have filled a box with more than a thousand new or rare insects.

If I had stopped to guess I would probably have considered the author a longicorn beetle or some fiddling orthopter.

(longicorn) mimics Pachyrhynchus orbifae, (b) (a hard curculio).

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