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UK
/wˈiːvəl/
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[ US /ˈwivəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈwivəɫ/ ]
NOUN
- any of several families of mostly small beetles that feed on plants and plant products; especially snout beetles and seed beetles
How To Use weevil In A Sentence
- Neither of them had a good word to say about the carpenter ant or the Japanese beetle, much less the curculio weevil. SOMETHING IN THE WATER
- Note 1: bo or boll weevil or weavil, a grayish weevil, super-family of beetles, that infests the cotton plant and feeds on the squares and bolls. drawing Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
- For example, an adult skylark was found with 48 weevils in its stomach.
- Those weedy boll weevils and the smirky lizards are witnesses to her behavior. The Town Secrets
- odorous salt pork and weevily hardtack
- Got a boll weevil off the merci, and it just ate your house down. METAPLANETARY
- The boll weevil infests cotton fields and millionaires go bankrupt.
- Researchers at some locations focus on beneficial insects like wasps to control insect pests such as alfalfa weevils or gypsy moths.
- The latter is an unidentified species of weevil that was observed feeding on nectar during two flowering seasons but carrying the four pollinia attached only once.
- The endophytes make Turf Alive! lawns invulnerable to webworms, billbugs, armyworms, cutworms, aphids and some weevils.
