weevil

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W0080900 (wē′vəl)n. Any of numerous beetles of the superfamily Curculionoidea, especially the snout beetles, that characteristically have a downward-curving snout and are destructive to nuts, fruits, stems, and roots.

[Middle English wevel, from Old English wifel; see webh- in Indo-European roots.]

weevil

(ˈwiːvɪl) n1. (Animals) Also called: snout beetle any beetle of the family Curculionidae, having an elongated snout (rostrum): they are pests, feeding on plants and plant products. See also boll weevil2. (Animals) Also called: pea weevil or bean weevil any of various beetles of the family Bruchidae (or Lariidae), the larvae of which live in the seeds of leguminous plants3. (Animals) any of various similar or related beetles[Old English wifel; related to Old High German wibil; compare Old Norse tordӯfill dungbeetle] ˈweevily adj

wee•vil

(ˈwi vəl)

n. any of numerous beetles of the family Curculionidae, having the head prolonged into a snout, and destructive to nuts, grain, fruit, etc. Also called snout beetle. [before 900; Middle English wevel, Old English wifel, c. Old Saxon goldwivil glowworm, Old High German wibil beetle; perhaps akin to wave] wee′vil•y, wee′vil•ly, adj.

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Noun

weevil - any of several families of mostly small beetles that feed on plants and plant products; especially snout beetles and seed beetlesbeetle - insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wingssnout beetle - small weevil having a prolonged snout; destructive to e.g. grains and nutsAnthonomus grandis, boll weevil - greyish weevil that lays its eggs in cotton bolls destroying the cottondarkling beetle, darkling groung beetle, tenebrionid - sluggish hard-bodied black terrestrial weevil whose larvae feed on e.g. decaying plant material or grainseed beetle, seed weevil - a small beetle that infests the seeds of legumesblack weevil, rice weevil, Sitophylus oryzae - brown weevil that infests stored grain especially rice

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curculionideдолгоносик

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common name for certain beetlesbeetle,
common name for insects of the order Coleoptera, which, with more than 300,000 described species, is the largest of the insect orders. Beetles have chewing mouthparts and well-developed antennae.
..... Click the link for more information. of the snout beetle family (Curculionidae), small, usually dull-colored, hard-bodied insects. The mouthparts of snout beetles are modified into down-curved snouts, or beaks, adapted for boring into plants; the jaws are at the end of the snout. The bent antennae usually project from the middle of the snout. The largest weevils are about 3 in. (7.6 cm) long, with the average length being about 1-4 in. (0.6 cm). The snout varies greatly in length among the different species; in the curculioscurculio
, name applied to various weevils (members of the snout beetle family, or Curculionidae), especially those that attack fruit. The term is sometimes limited to the acorn and nut weevils of the genus Curculio,
..... Click the link for more information. , or nut weevils, it may be longer than the body. Different weevil species attack different parts of plants—fruits, seeds, leaves, stems, or roots. In most species the female lays her eggs inside the plant tissue, on which the growing larvae feed. The granary weevil and rice weevil are serious pests of stored cereal grains. The thousands of other destructive weevil species include the sweet-potato, vegetable, alfalfa, clover leaf, strawberry, and pine weevils, as well as the cotton boll weevilboll weevil
or cotton boll weevil
, cotton-eating weevil, or snout beetle, Anthonomus grandis. Probably of Mexican or Central American origin, it appeared in Texas about 1892 and spread to most cotton-growing regions of the United States.
..... Click the link for more information. , the most serious weevil pest in the United States. The seed weevils, including the bean weevilbean weevil,
common name for a well-known cosmopolitan species of beetle (Acanthoscelides obtectus) that attacks beans and is thought to be native to the United States. It belongs to the family Bruchidae, the seed beetles. The bean weevil is small, about 1-6 in. (0.
..... Click the link for more information. , are not true weevils, but boring beetles of another family; they feed on leguminous crops, such as peas and beans. Weevils cause millions of dollars' worth of damage annually. The bark beetles, or engraver beetles, are related to the weevils. True weevils are classified in the phylum ArthropodaArthropoda
[Gr.,=jointed feet], largest and most diverse animal phylum. The arthropods include crustaceans, insects, centipedes, millipedes, spiders, scorpions, and the extinct trilobites.
..... Click the link for more information. , class Insecta, order Coleoptera, family Curculionidae.

weevil

[′wē·vəl] (invertebrate zoology) Any of various snout beetles whose larvae destroy crops by eating the interior of the fruit or grain, or bore through the bark into the pith of many trees.

weevil

1. any beetle of the family Curculionidae, having an elongated snout (rostrum): they are pests, feeding on plants and plant products 2. any of various beetles of the family Bruchidae (or Lariidae), the larvae of which live in the seeds of leguminous plants 3. any of various similar or related beetles

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noun any of several families of mostly small beetles that feed on plants and plant products

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