weevils

[wee-vuhl]

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noun

Also called snout beetle. any of numerous beetles of the family Curculionidae, which have the head prolonged into a snout and which are destructive to nuts, grain, fruit, etc.

any of numerous related beetles.

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Origin:
before 900; Middle English wevel, Old English wifel; cognate with Old High German wibil beetle; akin to wave

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weevil

O.E. wifel "small beetle," from P.Gmc. *webilaz (cf. O.S. wibil, O.H.G. wibil, Ger. Wiebel "beetle, chafer," O.N. tordyfill "dung beetle"), cognate with Lith. vabalas "beetle," from PIE base *webh- "to weave," also "to move quickly" (see weave). The sense gradually narrowed

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to a particular kind of beetle that, in larval or adult stages, bores into plants, often destroying them.

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