a. and sb. Zool. [ad. mod.L. longicornis, f. L. long-us LONG a. + cornū horn.] a. adj. Pertaining to the Longicornes or Longicornia, a group of coleopterous beetles having very long filiform antennæ. b. sb. A beetle of this group.
1848. Craig, Longicornes, Longecorns.
1855. Ogilvie, Suppl., Longicorn, pertaining to the longicornes.
1856. Bates, in Zoologist, XV. 5659. You take a dozen Longicorns one day, and they are sure to be of eight or ten distinct species.
1874. Wood, Nat. Hist., 675. We now come to the Longicorn Beetles.
1882. Garden, 27 May, 370/2. The common Longicorn Pine borer (Monohammus confusor).
1897. Mary Kingsley, W. Africa, 585. There were quantities of large longicorn beetles about during the night.
