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- noun Plural form of
weevil .
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Examples
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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.
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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.
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That is if bugs and plagues 'weevils' and 'blister rust' do not get them.
Archive 2010-01-01 Blue Tyson 2010
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That is if bugs and plagues 'weevils' and 'blister rust' do not get them.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Windup Girl - Paolo Bacigalupi Blue Tyson 2010
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That is if bugs and plagues 'weevils' and 'blister rust' do not get them.
Archive 2010-05-01 Blue Tyson 2010
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At the bottom was all kind of weevils and kreepy crawelys along with the usual roaches.
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Since I have apparently attracted the attention of the consonant weevils, I'll stand by my comments.
Do new post-pantsbomber TSA security directives kill inflight WiFi? (UPDATED) Boing Boing 2009
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According to gallerina Justine Try-Me, the viscous remains of boll weevils crunched underfoot as you approach the Hut in that sepulchral light resemble a C.S.I. Miami crime scene.
James Scarborough: "Stay Free© or Die: The Menstrual Hut Project," International City Bungalow Gallery, Long Beach, California James Scarborough 2011
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According to gallerina Justine Try-Me, the viscous remains of boll weevils crunched underfoot as you approach the Hut in that sepulchral light resemble a C.S.I. Miami crime scene.
James Scarborough: "Stay Free© or Die: The Menstrual Hut Project," International City Bungalow Gallery, Long Beach, California James Scarborough 2011
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And he reached out with Democrats, not just the boll weevils who were the conservative Texas Democrats, but with Tip O'Neill and liberal Massachusetts Democrats as well when he needed to get something done with the help the really--the guidance of people like Jim Baker.
Anti-Reagan Media Now Lecturing Conservatives on 'Appropriating' His Legacy, ABC Mocks 'Church of Reagan' Scott Whitlock 2011
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