weevil
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1. any of several families of mostly small beetles that feed on plants and plant products; especially snout beetles and seed beetles (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | beetle, |
| definition | : | insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | snout beetle, |
| definition | : | small weevil having a prolonged snout; destructive to e.g. grains and nuts (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | anthonomus grandis, boll weevil, |
| definition | : | greyish weevil that lays its eggs in cotton bolls destroying the cotton (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | darkling beetle, darkling groung beetle, tenebrionid, |
| definition | : | sluggish hard-bodied black terrestrial weevil whose larvae feed on e.g. decaying plant material or grain (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | seed beetle, seed weevil, |
| definition | : | a small beetle that infests the seeds of legumes (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | black weevil, rice weevil, sitophylus oryzae, |
| definition | : | brown weevil that infests stored grain especially rice (noun.animal) |
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