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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

HORNBUG

HORNBUG Horn "bug `, n. (Zoöl.)

 

Defn: A large nocturnal beetle of the genus Lucanus (as L. capreolus, and L. dama ), having long, curved upper jaws, resembling a sickle. The grubs are found in the trunks of old trees.