| NOUN | animal | weevil | any of several families of mostly small beetles that feed on plants and plant products |
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| Sounds | wiy'vahl | |
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| Rhymes | abdominal ... zoological: 2115 rhymes with ahl... | |
| Meaning | 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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| Narrower | boll weevil, Anthonomus grandis | greyish weevil that lays its eggs in cotton bolls destroying the cotton |
| darkling beetle, darkling groung beetle, tenebrionid | sluggish / sluggish hard-bodied black terrestrial / terrestrial weevil whose larvae feed on e.g. decaying plant material or grain | |
| rice weevil, black weevil, Sitophylus oryzae | brown weevil that infests stored grain / grain especially rice | |
| seed beetle, seed weevil | A small beetle that infests the seeds of legumes | |
| snout beetle | small weevil having a prolonged snout | |
| Broader | beetle | insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings |
| Spanish | gorgojo, picudo | |
| Catalan | corc, morrut | |
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