weevil

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈwiːv(ə)l/    美 /ˈwiːvɪl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
  2. Any of many tens of thousands of species of herbivorous beetles of various sizes, in the family Curculionidae within the superfamily Curculionoidea.
  3. Any of many similar, but more distantly related, beetles such as the biscuit weevil (Stegobium paniceum).
  4. A loathsome person. derogatory,figuratively
    — But you accuse other men of villainy with too easy a tongue, you weevil. I have never wanted you in this matter, and I have said so.

词形变化

weevils plural

词汇关系

衍生词
acorn weevil alfalfa weevil apple blossom weevil apple flea weevil apple weevil ash weevil banana root weevil banana weevil bean weevil biscuit weevil black vine weevil black weevil boll weevil broad-bean weevil broad-nosed weevil cabbage seedpod weevil cabbage seed weevil carrot weevil chestnut weevil clover leaf weevil clover-seed weevil clover weevil coffee-bean weevil corn weevil cotton-boll weevil cowpea weevil dicky rice weevil drugstore weevil Egyptian alfalfa weevil fern weevil flax weevil flea weevil flour weevil flower weevil Fuller's rose weevil fungus weevil giraffe weevil gorse seed weevil gorse weevil grain weevil granary weevil grapevine weevil greater rice weevil lesser clover leaf weevil maize weevil mango weevil New York weevil New Zealand giraffe weevil ngaio weevil nut weevil pales weevil palmetto weevil palm weevil peach weevil pea weevil pecan weevil pepper weevil pine gall weevil pine reproduction weevil pine root-collar weevil pine weevil plum weevil potato weevil rice water weevil rice weevil root weevil rose weevil seed weevil Sitka spruce weevil square weevil strawberry bud weevil strawberry root weevil strawberry weevil sunflower seed weevil sweetclover weevil sweet potato weevil thurberia weevil true weevil vegetable weevil vine weevil walnut weevil water weevil weevily West Indian cane weevil wheat weevil white-fringed weevil white-pine weevil

词源

From Middle English wevel, from Old English wifel (“beetle”), from Proto-West Germanic *wibil, from Proto-Germanic *wibilaz, from Proto-Indo-European *webʰel-, from *(h₁)webʰ- (“to wave, to weave”), said to be from the woven appearance of a weevil’s larval case, + *-el-, *-l̥- (diminutive or attributive suffix); see also wave and weave.
Compare Old Saxon *wivil (“beetle”); Middle Low German wevel; Old High German wibil, wipil (modern German Wiebel (“beetle; chafer”)); Lithuanian vãbalas (“beetle; weevil”); Old Norse vifill, as in tordyfill (“dung beetle, scarab”) (whence Dutch tortwevel; Icelandic tordýfill, Norwegian tordivel, Old English tordwifel, Swedish tordyvel); dialectal Russian ве́блица (véblica, “intestinal worm”).
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