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Weevil

noun

Any of several families of mostly small beetles that feed on plants and plant products; especially snout beetles and seed beetles.

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"Weevil" Quotes from Famous Books

... girl opened her mouth, and from it came words that fell upon the room like masses of lead. "I stand opposed to any man, Mr. Ellis, who, to enrich himself, and for the purpose of revenge, spreads the boll weevil in the ...

— Carmen Ariza • Charles Francis Stocking

... able to carry away a picture of that scene, with all its tones and tints, that would last in the memory, as I also wished to draw out of it all the meaning of what I felt. I left with a sense of failure, of weakness, of confused impressions, which was to me like a gnawing weevil of the mind, on the ...

— Two Summers in Guyenne • Edward Harrison Barker

... injecting a drop of ammonia into the thorax of those insects, such as Weevils, Buprestes, {13} and Dung-beetles, whose compact nervous system assists this physiological operation. I showed myself a ready pupil to my masters' teaching and used to paralyze a Buprestis or a Weevil almost as well as a Cerceris {14} could have done. Why should I not to-day imitate that expert butcher, the Tarantula? With the point of a fine needle, I inject a tiny drop of ammonia at the base of the skull of a Carpenter-bee or a Grasshopper. The insect succumbs then and there, without ...

— The Life of the Spider • J. Henri Fabre

Words linked to "Weevil" : Sitophylus oryzae, darkling groung beetle, Anthonomus grandis, beetle, snout beetle, darkling beetle, seed beetle, tenebrionid