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What is a weevil?

What is a weevil? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any of several small herbivorous beetles in the superfamily Curculionoidea, many having a distinctive snout.
  2. Any of several small herbivorous beetles in the family Curculionidae belonging to the superfamily Curculionoidea.
  3. Any of several similar but more distantly related beetles such as the biscuit weevil (Stegobium paniceum).
  4. (derogatory) A loathsome person.
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Until he saw the eradication program in use, he could hardly believe that he would ever see the day when the boll weevil would be eliminated.
Nematodes have been useful in reducing black vine weevil larval populations, especially in containerized plants.
In East Africa's Lake Victoria, for example, two weevil species reduced the coverage of water hyacinth by 80 percent.
Rhododendrons and azaleas will continue to sell despite deer, black vine weevil, phytophhora, and rhizoc, but should they?
I was surprised when the Royal Horticultural Society named the vine weevil as the worst pest in the garden last year.
Before the eradication program started, I was already using boll weevil traps, and I didn't have any trouble with the boll weevil at all.

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