- flour weevil
- nounan insect that infests flour and stored grains• Syn: ↑flour beetle• Hypernyms: ↑darkling beetle, ↑darkling groung beetle, ↑tenebrionid• Member Holonyms: ↑Tribolium, ↑genus Tribolium
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flour beetle — noun an insect that infests flour and stored grains • Syn: ↑flour weevil • Hypernyms: ↑darkling beetle, ↑darkling groung beetle, ↑tenebrionid • Member Holonyms: ↑Tribolium, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
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weevil — wee|vil [ˈwi:vəl] n [: Old English; Origin: wifil] a small insect that feeds on grain, flour etc and spoils it … Dictionary of contemporary English
weevil — noun (C) a small insect that spoils grain, flour etc by eating it … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
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Pea weevil — Pea Pea, n.; pl. {Peas}or {Pease}. [OE. pese, fr. AS. pisa, or OF. peis, F. pois; both fr. L. pisum; cf. Gr. ?, ?. The final s was misunderstood in English as a plural ending. Cf. {Pease}.] 1. (Bot.) A plant, and its fruit, of the genus {Pisum},… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
rice weevil — noun brown weevil that infests stored grain especially rice • Syn: ↑black weevil, ↑Sitophylus oryzae • Hypernyms: ↑weevil • Member Holonyms: ↑Sitophylus, ↑genus Sitophylus * * * … Useful english dictionary
Wheat weevil — Wheat Wheat (hw[=e]t), n. [OE. whete, AS. hw[=ae]te; akin to OS. hw[=e]ti, D. weit, G. weizen, OHG. weizzi, Icel. hveiti, Sw. hvete, Dan. hvede, Goth. hwaiteis, and E. white. See {White}.] (Bot.) A cereal grass ({Triticum vulgare}) and its grain … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
darkling beetle — noun sluggish hard bodied black terrestrial weevil whose larvae feed on e.g. decaying plant material or grain • Syn: ↑darkling groung beetle, ↑tenebrionid • Hypernyms: ↑weevil • Hyponyms: ↑flour beetle, ↑flour weevil … Useful english dictionary
darkling groung beetle — noun sluggish hard bodied black terrestrial weevil whose larvae feed on e.g. decaying plant material or grain • Syn: ↑darkling beetle, ↑tenebrionid • Hypernyms: ↑weevil • Hyponyms: ↑flour beetle, ↑flour weevil … Useful english dictionary
