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Weevil

Weevil Meaning & Definition
Weevil Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Weevil?

[n] any of several families of mostly small beetles that feed on plants and plant products; especially snout weevils and seed weevils

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See Also | Anthonomus grandis | beetle | black weevil | boll weevil | darkling beetle | darkling groung beetle | rice weevil | seed beetle | seed weevil | Sitophylus oryzae | snout beetle | tenebrionid

Weevil In Webster's Dictionary

\Wee"vil\, n. [OE. wivel, wevil, AS. wifel, wibil; akin to OD. wevel, OHG. wibil, wibel, G. wiebel, wibel, and probably to Lith. vabalas beetle, and E. weave. See {Weave}.] (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of snout beetles, or Rhynchophora, in which the head is elongated and usually curved downward. Many of the species are very injurious to cultivated plants. The larv[ae] of some of the species live in nuts, fruit, and grain by eating out the interior, as the plum weevil, or curculio, the nut weevils, and the grain weevil (see under {Plum}, {Nut}, and {Grain}). The larv[ae] of other species bore under the bark and into the pith of trees and various other plants, as the pine weevils (see under {Pine}). See also {Pea weevil}, {Rice weevil}, {Seed weevil}, under {Pea}, {Rice}, and {Seed}.

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