noun
greyish weevil that lays its eggs in cotton bolls destroying the cotton
• Syn: ↑Anthonomus grandis
• Hypernyms: ↑weevil
• Member Holonyms: ↑Anthonomus, ↑genus Anthonomus
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noun, pl ⋯ -vils [count]
: a small insect that feeds on cotton plants
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an insect that damages cotton plants
Useful english dictionary. 2012.