weevil

  1. Noun.  Any of several small herbivorous beetles in the superfamily Curculionoidea. Many of them have a distinctive snout.
  2. Noun.  Any of several small herbivorous beetles in the family Curculionidae belonging to the superfamily ''Curculionoidea''.
  3. Noun.  Any of several similar but more distantly related beetles such as the biscuit weevil.

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