Crossword-Solution: WEEVIL
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Weevil | n. | Any one of numerous species of snout beetles, or Rhynchophora, in which the head is elongated and usually curved downward. Many of the species are very injurious to cultivated plants. The larvae of some of the species live in nuts, fruit, and grain by eating out the interior, as the plum weevil, or curculio, the nut weevils, and the grain weevil (see under Plum, Nut, and Grain). The larvae of other species bore under the bark and into the pith of trees and various other plants, as the pine weevils (see under Pine). See also Pea weevil, Rice weevil, Seed weevil, under Pea, Rice, and Seed. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| WEEVIL | anagram | WELIVE |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with WEEVIL (5)
When the boll weevil spread across the Southern states like a plague, it wiped out many poor farmers, and it drove them to seek other means of livelihood elsewhere.
The boll weevil was once a curse; then it came to be somewhat regarded as a disguised blessing--in limiting production.
Without the ballad, the weevil's effect on economic history would be unchanged; but as respects mind and imagination, the ballad gives the weevil all sorts of significances.
Conceive such an outing, remember the pallid brute that lived in Skerryvore like a weevil in a biscuit, and receive the intelligence that I was rather the better for my journey.
And to the gods the rice weevil is, just like the farmers and manufacturers of agricultural chemicals, merely another form of life.
Quotes with WEEVIL (2)
On building homes for fallen angels: When I was small - I sought a home, a place to go and rest my bones. Then founded something, of my own, I lived among the restless stones. If seeking leads you back to evil, what good is that, I asked a weevil. He said a home is what you make, it can't be real, if it is fake... And if you wait instead of seek, will you find love, or something bleak? I know (myself) for I have found, a beauty, hidden — in a sound. Waiting is boring. And so …
Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form... The history of the present must teach us the history of the past.[Referring to studying fossil remains of the weevil, largely unchanged to the present day.]
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 38 times in crossword archives (1954–2025).