boll weevil
21The Boll Weevil Song — Infobox Single Name = The Boll Weevil Song Cover size = Border = Caption = Artist = Brook Benton Album = The Boll Weevil Song and 11 Other Great Hits A side = B side = Your Eyes Released = 1961 Format = 7 (45 rpm) Recorded = Genre = Novelty song… …
22cotton-boll weevil — ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ noun : boll weevil …
23boll — O.E. bolla bowl, cup, pot, merged with M.Du. bolle round object, borrowed 13c., both from P.Gmc. *bul , from PIE *bhel (2) to blow, inflate, swell (see BOLE (Cf. bole)). Influenced in meaning by L. bulla bubble, ball, ultimately from the same PIE …
24weevil — /wee veuhl/, n. 1. Also called snout beetle. any of numerous beetles of the family Curculionidae, which have the head prolonged into a snout and which are destructive to nuts, grain, fruit, etc. 2. any of numerous related beetles. [bef. 900; ME… …
25Weevil — This article is about the beetles. For other uses, see Weevil (disambiguation). Weevils Lixus angustatus Scientific classification Kingdom …
26weevil — n. an alfalfa; boll weevil * * * boll weevil an alfalfa …
27boll — n. a rounded capsule containing seeds, esp. flax or cotton. Phrases and idioms: boll weevil a small American or Mexican weevil, Anthonomus grandis, whose larvae destroy cotton bolls. Etymology: ME f. MDu. bolle: see BOWL(1) …
28weevil — A beetle, the larvae of which are often destructive of stored property, particularly grain in an elevator. 56 Am Jlst Wareh § 137. A pest destructive to alfalfa. Oregon WashingtOD R. & Nav. Co. v Washington, 270 US 87, 70 L Ed 482, 46 S Ct 279.… …
29weevil n — Two boll weevils grew up in South Carolina. One went to Hollywood and became a famous actor. The other stayed behind in the cotton fields and never amounted to much. The second one, naturally, became known as the lesser of two weevils …
30apple blossom weevil — noun : a European weevil (Anthonomus pomorum) that is related to the American boll weevil and that feeds as an adult on the leaves of apple and lays its eggs in the young flower buds where the developing larva feeds and causes the bud to turn… …
