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Definition: CURCULIO |
CURCULIONoun1. 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. |
Crosswords: CURCULIO |
| English words defined with "CURCULIO": Billbug ♦ Curculios ♦ Plum gouger, Plum weevil ♦ Quince curculio ♦ Soldier beetle. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "CURCULIO" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Latin (penis, weevil). |
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Expressions using "CURCULIO": Grape curculio ♦ plum curculio ♦ Quince curculio. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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curculio plum | 5 |
curculio | 2 |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "CURCULIO": curculios. (additional references) | |
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"CURCULIO" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cucullia, Curculigo, Korcula. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "CURCULIO" (pronounced 'Cur*cu"li*o'): Obligato, Olio, Quellio. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-i-l-o-r-u-u" | |
-3 letters: clour, colic, croci, curio, occur, oculi. | |
-4 letters: coil, coir, croc, curl, loci, lour, roil, uric. | |
-5 letters: col, cor, cur, oil, orc, our, roc, ulu. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-i-l-o-r-u-u" | |
+1 letter: curculios. | |
+3 letters: cirrocumuli, coculturing. | |
+4 letters: circuitously, circumfluous, cirrocumulus, cocurricular, microculture, micronucleus. | |
+5 letters: acculturation, microcultural, microcultures, sociocultural. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 55 52 43 55 4C 49 4F |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. ..- .-. -.-. ..- .-.. .. --- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01010101 01010010 01000011 01010101 01001100 01001001 01001111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C U R C U L I O |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0055 0052 0043 0055 004C 0049 004F |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3755523755464349 |
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