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weevil

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wee·vil  (wvl)
n.
Any of numerous beetles, of the superfamily Curculionoidea, especially the snout beetle, that characteristically have a downward-curving snout and are destructive to nuts, fruits, stems, and roots.

[Middle English wevel, from Old English wifel; see webh- in Indo-European roots.]

weevil [ˈwiːvɪl]
n
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) Also called snout beetle any beetle of the family Curculionidae, having an elongated snout (rostrum): they are pests, feeding on plants and plant products See also boll weevil
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) Also called pea, bean weevil any of various beetles of the family Bruchidae (or Lariidae), the larvae of which live in the seeds of leguminous plants
3. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any of various similar or related beetles
[Old English wifel; related to Old High German wibil; compare Old Norse tordȳfill dungbeetle]
weevily  adj
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.weevilweevil - any of several families of mostly small beetles that feed on plants and plant products; especially snout beetles and seed beetles
beetle - insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings
snout beetle - small weevil having a prolonged snout; destructive to e.g. grains and nuts
Anthonomus grandis, boll weevil - greyish weevil that lays its eggs in cotton bolls destroying the cotton
darkling beetle, darkling groung beetle, tenebrionid - sluggish hard-bodied black terrestrial weevil whose larvae feed on e.g. decaying plant material or grain
seed beetle, seed weevil - a small beetle that infests the seeds of legumes
black weevil, rice weevil, Sitophylus oryzae - brown weevil that infests stored grain especially rice
Translations
weevil [ˈwiːvl] Ngorgojo m
weevil [ˈwiːvɪl] ncharançon m
weevil
weevil [ˈwiːvl] n (Zool) → tonchio
weevil [ˈwiːvl] n (Zool) → tonchio


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If you had the pluck of a weevil in a biscuit you would catch them still.
I had in my cellar a firkin of potatoes, about two quarts of peas with the weevil in them, and on my shelf a little rice, a jug of molasses, and of rye and Indian meal a peck each.
Tulliver was, on the whole, a man of safe traditional opinions; but on one or two points he had trusted to his unassisted intellect, and had arrived at several questionable conclusions; amongst the rest, that rats, weevils, and lawyers were created by Old Harry.
 
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