Definition of "weevils" []

• Plural form of weevil. (noun)

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• "The species usually called weevils most often lay eggs and injure the nuts from the time the meat begins to form until it is mature, whereas the group known as curculios generally emerge and cause most serious damage during the early part of the growing season, when the new shoots are developing and the crop starts to set and grow."
• "Everything on board was dirty: the tin pannikins were rusty, the biscuit was mouldy and full of creatures that the captain called weevils and Macleod styled wee-deevils."
• "That is if bugs and plagues 'weevils' and 'blister rust' do not get them."