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weevil

Any of a superfamily (Curculionoidea) of beetles, usually less than 6 mm/0.25 in in length, and with a head prolonged into a downward beak, which is used for boring into plant stems and trees for feeding.

The larvae are usually white and the adults green, black, or brown. There are approximately 570 species of weevil in Britain and 40,000 known species worldwide. The grain weevil Sitophilus granarius is a serious pest of stored grain and the boll weevil Anthonomus grandis damages cotton crops.



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If you had the pluck of a weevil in a biscuit you would catch them still.
Treasure Island by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context
I had in my cellar a firkin of potatoes, about two quarts of peas with the weevil in them, and on my shelf a little rice, a jug of molasses, and of rye and Indian meal a peck each.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
Tulliver was, on the whole, a man of safe traditional opinions; but on one or two points he had trusted to his unassisted intellect, and had arrived at several questionable conclusions; amongst the rest, that rats, weevils, and lawyers were created by Old Harry.
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