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Extremely low in tree-trunk, harmful beetle
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boll weevil
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" Boll Weevil " is a traditional blues song, also known by similar titles such as " Boweavil " or " Boll Weevil Blues ". Although many songs about the boll weevil were recorded by blues musicians during the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, this one has become well ...
Wiktionary
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n. beetle measuring an average length of six millimeters (¼ inch), which feeds on cotton buds and flowers, native to Central America
WordNet
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n. grayish weevil that lays its eggs in cotton bolls destroying the cotton [syn: Anthonomus grandis ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ The boll weevil infests cotton fields and millionaires go bankrupt.
Usage examples of boll weevil.
They caught him and his master, Fianelli, who had been hiding like a boll weevil right in the middle of his hunters.
The boll weevil came along and ate all the cotton, and we had to find something else to do with the land.
Co-Lateral Symbiosis of the Boll Weevil, and so on, through three inches of fine print The old boy seemed to be a heavyweight.