Egyptian alfalfa weevil
noun
: an Old World weevil (Hypera brunneipennis) that is now a pest of alfalfa in western North America
Word History
First Known Use
1943, in the meaning defined above
- knockers-off
- knocking
- knocking (about)
- knocking (someone) off his/her pedestal
- knocking about
- knocking back
- knocking dead
- knocking down
- knocking for a loop
- knocking in
- knocking off
- knocking off her pedestal
- maeandrae
- maeandras
- maeandrine
- maeandriniform
- maeandrinoid
- maeandroid
- Maecenas
- maecenases
- Maecenases
- Maecenasship
- Maecenatism
- maegbot
- maegbote