Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Curculio

Curculio (k?r-r?"l?-?) , noun

[Latin, a grain weevil.]

(Zoology) 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.