weevil
IPA: wˈivʌɫ
noun
- Any of many tens of thousands of species of herbivorous beetles, ranging in size from tiny to large, in the superfamily Curculionoidea, the most characteristic species having the head projecting in a distinctive snout with the mouthparts at the tip.
- Any of many tens of thousands of species of herbivorous beetles of various sizes, in the family Curculionidae within the superfamily Curculionoidea.
- Any of many similar, but more distantly related, beetles such as the biscuit weevil (Stegobium paniceum).
- (figurative, derogatory) A loathsome person.
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Examples of "weevil" in Sentences
- The boll weevils had eaten it all.
- Founding to the Boll Weevil Monument.
- The red palm weevil in the Mediterranean.
- This will provide a link to the weevil page.
- He made the boll weevil and mounted it atop the statue.
- Miccosukee thrived until the boll weevil infestation of 1918.
- Both Weevils moan, backing up and cowering in the corners of their cells.
- But nothing lasts forever and the boll weevil hit Gruene hard in the 1920s.
- Cotton cultivation peaked in the 1930s, before boll weevils ravaged the crop.
- Efforts are ongoing to eradicate the weevil from the rest of the United States.
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