weevil

1. Any of several families of mostly small beetles that feed on plants and plant products;
   Especially snout beetles and seed beetles (synset 102180624)
   is a type of: beetle - insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings
   subtypes:

   • snout beetle - small weevil having a prolonged snout; destructive to e.g. grains and nuts
   • anthonomus grandis, boll weevil - greyish weevil that lays its eggs in cotton bolls destroying the cotton
   • darkling beetle, darkling groung beetle, tenebrionid - sluggish hard-bodied black terrestrial weevil whose larvae feed on e.g. decaying plant material or grain
   • seed beetle, seed weevil - a small beetle that infests the seeds of legumes
   • black weevil, rice weevil, sitophylus oryzae - brown weevil that infests stored grain especially rice

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