weevil

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.

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

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weevil

Noun

a beetle with a long snout that feeds on plants [Old English wifel]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

weevil - 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