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noun - a tropical weevil

ZYZZYVA - Zyzzyva is a genus of tropical American weevils often found in association with palms. It is a snouted beetle. "Zyzzyva" is the last word in many En...

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Insect that's the last word in the Scrabble Players Dictionary
Tropical insect whose name is the last word in the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary
Destructive tropical American weevil

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Sep 29 2006 New York Times
Jun 18 2004 New York Times
Dec 11 1999 New York Times

Zyzzyva description
Zyzzyva is a genus of tropical American weevils often found in association with palms. It is a snouted beetle. "Zyzzyva" is the last word in many English-language dictionaries.The yellowish weevil is no longer than an ant. It was first discovered in 1922 in Brazil, and named by an Irishman. Thomas Lincoln Casey, Jr., an entomologist at New York's Museum of Natural History thought that, because there was not a Latin name or Brazilian name associated with this weevil, it was probably named Zyzzyva as a practical joke to place it in a prominent ending position in many guides and manuals.Thomas Casey describes Zyzzyva ochreotecta in his book Memoirs on the Coleoptera, Volume 10: * Rather broadly oblong-oval, convex, densely clothed with scales, orchreous and very uniform above, completely concealing the sculpture. Beak scarcely longer than the prothorax, thick, distincly [sic?] acurate, compressed basally, finely, closely punctate, longitudinally furrowed and carinate above. Antennae obsc

Zyzzyva description

Zyzzyva is a genus of tropical American weevils often found in association with palms. It is a snouted beetle. "Zyzzyva" is the last word in many English-language dictionaries.The yellowish weevil is no longer than an ant. It was first discovered in 1922 in Brazil, and named by an Irishman. Thomas Lincoln Casey, Jr., an entomologist at New York's Museum of Natural History thought that, because there was not a Latin name or Brazilian name associated with this weevil, it was probably named Zyzzyva as a practical joke to place it in a prominent ending position in many guides and manuals.Thomas Casey describes Zyzzyva ochreotecta in his book Memoirs on the Coleoptera, Volume 10:
* Rather broadly oblong-oval, convex, densely clothed with scales, orchreous and very uniform above, completely concealing the sculpture. Beak scarcely longer than the prothorax, thick, distincly [sic?] acurate, compressed basally, finely, closely punctate, longitudinally furrowed and carinate above. Antennae obsc

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