11 examples of curculio in sentences
The germander is known as horse-chere, from its growing after horse-droppings; and the horse-bane, because supposed in Sweden to cause a kind of palsy in horsesan effect which has been ascribed by Linnaeus not so much to the noxious qualities of the plant itself, as to an insect (Curculio paraplecticus) that breeds in its stem.
So sleeps in silence the Curculio, shut 410 In the dark chambers of the cavern'd nut, Erodes with ivory beak the vaulted shell, And quits on filmy wings its narrow cell.
[Footnote 321: See the well-known description of the Forum in Plautus' Curculio, iv.
Curculio I. i. 73; Festus, p. 346), and thus answers to our breakfast.
Thus Plautus makes Palinurus, a character in his comedy of "Curculio," say, "If you would do reverence to the gods, you must turn to the right hand."
Curculio mirabilis.
Curculio spectabilis.
Curculio 4-dens.
Curculio crenulatus.
Curculio cultratus.
Curculio paraplecticus [Syst.