cucujo

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cucujo - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Cucujo \Cu*cu"jo\ (k??-k??"h?), n. [Native name.] (Zool.)
     The fire beetle of Mexico and the West Indies.
     [1913 Webster] Cucullate

  Fire beetle \Fire" bee`tle\ (Zool.)
     A very brilliantly luminous beetle (Pyrophorus noctilucus),
     one of the elaters, found in Central and South America; --
     called also cucujo. The name is also applied to other
     species. See Firefly.
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