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n. - Any of numerous beetles of the family Cerambycidae

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  • What formerly would have been a repulsive object (such as a great longicorn or beetle) is worn with ease by the belles of our time.
  • Invertebrates, especially insects, are quite diverse, and, in the uplands of the Caucasus, one can observe many examples of the varied insect life, including an endemic...
  • The rain has washed the ground away from under its off legs, so that it tilts; and there were quantities of large longicorn beetles about during the night — the sort...
  • Many longicorn beetles in the tropics exactly mimic wasps, bees, or ants.
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