HyperDic: flour_weevil

English > 1 sense of the expression *flour weevil*:
NOUN	animal	flour weevil, flour beetle	an insect that infests flour and stored grains / grains

English > *flour weevil*: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaning	An insect that infests flour and stored grains / grains.
Synonym	flour beetle
Member of	Tribolium, genus Tribolium	flour beetles
Broader	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