weevil
nounHow many syllables in weevil?
There are 2 syllables in the word weevil.How to pronounce weevil:
Definition of weevil:
- weevil (noun):
- any of several families of mostly small beetles that feed on plants and plant products; especially snout beetles and seed beetles.
- any of a family (curculionidae) having a well-developed snout curved downward with the jaws at the tip and clubbed usually elbowed antennae
- any of a superfamily (curculionoidea) of beetles which have the head prolonged into a more or less distinct snout and which include many that are destructive especially as larvae to nuts, fruit, and grain or to living plants
Synonyms for weevil:
anthonomus grandis
beetle
black weevil
boll weevil
darkling beetle
rice weevil
seed beetle
seed weevil
sitophylus oryzae
snout beetle
tenebrionid
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