longicorn

From Latin longus (“long”) + cornu (“horn”). Compare French longicorne.

longicorn

1. (zoology) Long-horned.
2. (zoology, obsolete) Of or relating to the Longicornia, an obsolete group of insects. Some are now classified as Cerambycidae (longhorn beetles).

longicorn (plural longicorns)

1. (obsolete) One of the Longicornia, an obsolete group of long-horned beetles

• longicorn in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• “longicorn”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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