black weevil

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Noun1.black weevil - brown weevil that infests stored grain especially riceblack weevil - brown weevil that infests stored grain especially rice
weevil - any of several families of mostly small beetles that feed on plants and plant products; especially snout beetles and seed beetles
genus Sitophylus, Sitophylus - a genus of Bruchidae
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Anderson named the tiny black weevil, found in Bautista's native Dominican Republic, after the slugger because of the bat-flip home run that propelled Toronto to the 2015 American League championship series.
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For the last 3 yr through pest monitoring in soybean crops in the municipality of Altamira, Tamaulipas, Mexico, in the "Brecha de Corpus" zone and in El Manzano, Tapachula, Chiapas, the presence of a black weevil that attacks soybean in both vegetative and reproductive stages has been detected.
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