Crossword clues for weevils
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Curculio \Cur*cu"li*o\ (k?r-r?"l?-?), n.; pl. Curculios (-?z). [L., a grain weevil.] (Zo["o]l.) One of a large group of beetles ( Rhynchophora) of many genera; -- called also weevils, snout beetles, billbeetles, and billbugs. Many of the species are very destructive, as the plum curculio, the corn, grain, and rice weevils, etc.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of weevil English)
Usage examples of "weevils".
Pepper contains piperettine and piperine, compounds that are poisonous to some caterpillars, beetles and weevils.
And not long ago had come news of weevils and rusts and smuts and the Divine only knew what else beginning to make their sinister way through the farming belts of western Alhanroel, so in a little while the same madness would very likely be sweeping the senior continent.
He wondered what these men would think if they found themselves lacking soaps for their linen, out of mugwort to dissuade the lice and moth from their gowns, with no bay leaves to keep the weevils out of the flour.
However, you don't blame the entire church for the actions of boll weevils who use the edifice in order to do their crimes.
He dug in and dug out by the skill of his tilth for himself and all belonging to him and he sweated his crew beneath his auspice for the living and he urned his dread, that dragon volant, and he made louse for us and delivered us to boll weevils amain, that mighty liberator, Unfru-Chikda-Uru-Wukru and begad he did, our ancestor most worshipful, till he thought of a better one in his windower's house with that blushmantle upon him from earsend to earsend.
She had singlehandedly taken over the responsibility of scalding the goats' milk, patiently pounding hard biscuit-re moving the weevils as she did so-to be mixed with it, and feeding the resulting mixture to those hands strong enough to digest it.