1) Beetle 2) Beetle bad for bolls 3) Beetle that eats cotton 4) Boll eater 5) Boll menace 6) Certain cotton-eater 7) Cotton pest 8) Cotton-eating beetle 9) Crop-attacking bug 10) Crop-destroying beetle 11) English musical duo 12) Flour infester 13) Grain pest 14) Plantation pest 15) Small beetle, crop pest
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1) Beetle 2) Tenebrionid
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Attelabidae — leaf rolling weevils Belidae — primitive weevils Brentidae — straight snout weevils Curculionidae — true weevils Many weevils are damaging to crops. The grain or wheat weevil (Sitophilus granarius) damages stored grain. The boll weevil (Anthonomus grandis) attacks cotton crops. It lays its eggs inside cotton bolls, and the yo...
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• (n.) 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 larvae 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 gra...
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true weevil of the insect order Coleoptera (beetles and weevils). Curculionidae not only is the largest coleopteran family (about 40,000 species) but ... [2 related articles]
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<zoology> 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 larvae 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...
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A kind of beetle that can eat your food before you do.
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shortened form of boll weevil. See boll weevil.
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Wee'vil noun [ Middle English
wivel ,
wevil , Anglo-Saxon
wifel ,
wibil ; akin to OD.
wevel , Old High German
wibil ,
wibel , German
wiebel ,
wibel , and probably to Lithuanian
vabalas beetle, and English
weave . See
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[n] - any of several families of mostly small beetles that feed on plants and plant products
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beetles in the Superfamily Curculionoidea. The group includes several pests of economic importance.
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noun any of several families of mostly small beetles that feed on plants and plant products; especially snout beetles and seed beetles
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Any of a superfamily (Curculionoidea) of beetles, usually less than 6 mm/0.25 in in length, and with a head prolonged into a downward beak, which is used for boring into plant stems and trees for feeding. The larvae are usually white and the adults green, black, or brown. There are approximately 570 species of weevil in Britain and 40,000 known...
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