EGAVE

weevil

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Meaning

  1. 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.
  2. noun Any of many tens of thousands of species of herbivorous beetles of various sizes, in the family Curculionidae within the superfamily Curculionoidea.
  3. noun Any of many similar, but more distantly related, beetles such as the biscuit weevil (Stegobium paniceum).
  4. noun A loathsome person.

Similar words

boll pest snouted plum grape granary borer inadequate wevil fungus weevil

Often followed by

and in is larvae was damage has control infestation

Word family

weevilly weevils weevily

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