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Definition: Weevil |
WeevilNoun1. Any of several families of mostly small beetles that feed on plants and plant products; especially snout weevils and seed weevils. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "weevil" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1854. (references) |
Etymology: Weevil \Wee"vil\, noun. [from Old English expression wivel, wevil, Anglo-Saxon wifel, wibil; akin to OD. wevel, Old High German. wibil, wibel, German wiebel, wibel, and probably to Lith. vabalas beetle, and English weave. See Weave.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of weevils, portends loss in trade and falseness in love. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Food & Agriculture | A beetle of the extensive family Curculionidae, characterised by the head of the adult being more or less prolonged into a snout bearing clubbed, generally bent, antennae, and by curved, legless larvae. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A weevil is a beetle from the Curculionoidea superfamily. They are usually small (less than 6mm) and herbivorous. Due to the shape of their heads, weevils are commonly known as 'snout beetles'.Weevils are destructive to crops. The grain or wheat weevil (Sitophilus granarius) damages stored grain. The boll weevil (Anthonomus grandis) attacks cotton crops. Biscuit weevils (Stegobium paniceum) were previously known for eatting the biscuits on board ships. The Zyzzyva weevil is a genus of tropical American weevil.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Weevil."
Crosswords: Weevil |
| English words defined with "weevil": Anthonomus grandis ♦ Bean weevil, Billbug, black weevil, boll weevil, Boud ♦ Clover weevil, Corn weevil, Curculionidous ♦ darkling beetle, darkling groung beetle, Diamond beetle ♦ Grain weevil, Grape curculio ♦ Palm worm, Pea bug, Pea weevil, Plum gouger, Plum weevil, Potato weevil ♦ rice weevil ♦ Sitophylus oryzae, snout beetle, Strawberry borer ♦ tenebrionid ♦ Vine beetle, Vine borer ♦ Wevil, Wheat weevil, Wood borer, Wound gall. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "weevil": pest-control worker. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "weevil": Boud. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | A female Catolaccus grandis wasp homes in on a boll weevil larva. This 3/8 inch parasitic wasp, a native of Mexico, inserts her ovipositor through the plastic film covering the individual rearing cell and immobilizes the larva. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |  | Cotton Boll Weevil. Credit: USDA ARS News. |
 | Giant salvinia is a fast-growing fern that can clog ponds and lakes. Forming mats up to 2 feet thick, the plant gobbles up oxygen and blocks sunlight needed by other water dwellers. A tiny weevil, Cyrtobagous salviniae, is under study as a biocontrol for this obnoxious invader. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |  | Oxyops vitiosa, a leaf weevil, is thriving on invasive melaleuca in southern Florida. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Gary Buckingham.. |
 | Maize weevil. Credit: USDA ARS News. |  | Adult citrus root weevil, Diaprepes. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller.. |
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| "Weevil" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Weevil" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 11 | 106,044 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "weevil": Bean weevil ♦ black weevil ♦ boll weevil ♦ Clover weevil ♦ Corn weevil ♦ flour weevil ♦ Grain weevil ♦ nut weevil ♦ palm weevil ♦ pea weevil ♦ pine weevil ♦ plum weevil ♦ potato weevil ♦ rice weevil ♦ seed weevil ♦ vine weevil ♦ vine weevil ( peritelus griseus ♦ wheat weevil. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "weevil"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | mizë gruri. (various references) | |
Arabic | سوسة الفاكهة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | житоядец. (various references) | |
Chinese | 象鼻虫 (weevils). (various references) | |
Danish | snudebille (peritelus spaeroïdes ), vine weevil ( peritelus griseus). (various references) | |
Dutch | snuitkever, dennesnuitkever. (various references) | |
Farsi | کو, سوسه , شپشه گندم , شپشه (Louse). (various references) | |
Finnish | kärsäkäs. (various references) | |
French | charançon. (various references) | |
German | Rüsselkäfer (weevils). (various references) | |
Greek | σιταρόψειρα, βρούχος,βωξ,γένος εντόμων, μαμούνι. (various references) | |
Hungarian | zsizsik. (various references) | |
Italian | tonchio, punteruolo (awl, bodkin, bradawl, punch). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 象虫 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぞうむし. (various references) | |
Manx | deyll (beetle, coleopter), caraig (beetle, cockroach). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eevilway.(various references) | |
Portuguese | gorgulho da madeira, gorgulho (bunt). (various references) | |
Russian | долгоносик (boll weevil). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | žižak. (various references) | |
Spanish | gorgojo (dwarf). (various references) | |
Swedish | vivel. (various references) | |
Turkish | pamukkurdu, buğday biti. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | довгоносик. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | curculio. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "weevil": weeviled, weevilly, weevils, weevily. (additional references) | |
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"Weevil" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dweezil, Seevli, weavel, weavil, weenil, weeva, weeve, weevy, wevel, wevi. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "weevil" (pronounced wē"vul) |
| 4 | -ē" v u l | evil, medieval, primeval, retrieval, upheaval. |
| 3 | -v u l | anvil, approval, archival, arrival, arval, bedevil, bevel, carnival, civil, daredevil, devil, disapproval, dishevel, drivel, festival, gavel, gravel, grovel, hovel, survival, swivel, interval, larval, level, marvel, multilevel, naval, navel, novel, oval, Ravel, removal, revel, revival, rival, servile, shovel, shrivel, travel, uncivil, unravel. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-l-v-w" | |
-1 letter: lieve. | |
-2 letters: evil, live, lwei, veil, view, vile, weel, wile, wive. | |
-3 letters: eel, eve, ewe, lee, lei, lev, lie, vee, vie, wee. | |
-4 letters: el, li, we. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-l-v-w" | |
+1 letter: weevils, weevily. | |
+2 letters: alewives, reviewal, swiveled, teleview, viewable, viewless, vowelize, wavelike, weeviled, weevilly. | |
+3 letters: kalewives, reviewals, semivowel, swivelled, televiews, vowelized, vowelizes, wolverine. | |
+4 letters: reviewable, semivowels, silverware, silverweed, televiewed, televiewer, viewlessly, wolverines. | |
+5 letters: silverwares, silverweeds, televiewers, televiewing. | |
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