genus anthonomus

English Thesaurus

1. weevils destructive of cultivated plants (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	arthropod genus,
definition	:	a genus of arthropods (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	anthonomus grandis, boll weevil,
definition	:	greyish weevil that lays its eggs in cotton bolls destroying the cotton (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	curculionidae, family curculionidae,
definition	:	true weevils: snout beetles (noun.animal)