Usually means: Small beetle, infests stored grains.
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  1. weevil: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. weevil: Merriam-Webster
  3. weevil: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. weevil: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. weevil: Collins English Dictionary
  6. weevil: Vocabulary.com
  7. Weevil, weevil: Wordnik
  8. weevil: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. weevil: Wiktionary
  10. weevil: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. weevil: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. weevil: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. weevil: Dictionary.com
  14. weevil: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Weevil (Torchwood), Weevil (band), Weevil (beetle), Weevil (disambiguation), Weevil: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Weevil: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. weevil: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. weevil: Rhymezone
  19. Weevil: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. weevil: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. weevil: FreeDictionary.org
  22. weevil: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. weevil: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Weevil (beetle), weevil: Encyclopedia

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  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. weevil: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Any of many tens of thousands of species of herbivorous beetles, ranging in size from tiny to large, in the superfamily Curculionoidea, the most characteristic species having the head projecting in a distinctive snout with the mouthparts at the tip.
noun:  Any of many tens of thousands of species of herbivorous beetles of various sizes, in the family Curculionidae within the superfamily Curculionoidea.
noun:  Any of many similar, but more distantly related, beetles such as the biscuit weevil (Stegobium paniceum).
noun:  (figurative, derogatory) A loathsome person.

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