The phrase "a weevil" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a type of small beetle, often associated with plants or stored food products.
Example: "The pantry was infested with a weevil, causing us to throw away several bags of flour."
Alternatives: "a beetle" or "a pest".
Corruption, Kagame told me, is "like a weevil".
A drop of water the size of a weevil would evaporate rapidly.
I counted some Judoon, an Ood and a Cyberman, a Blowfish from way back in Torchwood, and possibly a Weevil from the same show?
The moral of the tale, at least for animals, is that a weevil that starts an arms race may end up with descendants armed like a rhinoceros beetle.
Taken from the album Murder Ballads, The Curse of Millhaven is told from the point of view of a 15-year-old girl who's been evil "since I was no bigger than a weevil".
The text is enhanced by Meredith Waterstraat's drawings which, without Disneyesque coyness, convey the beauty of an acorn weevil, of a mantis eating a horse fly and even of a crab louse holding tight to a pubic hair.
The food was kept hot in carefully wrapped pots, though the day was so uncharitably warm (too warm, in fact, for wearing lipstick, a fact that most of the ladies present chose to disregard) that the pots needed no help staying as cozy as a Mississippi weevil in a boll at the height of August.
To lay an egg into a camellia seed, a female weevil uses its extremely long rostrum to excavate the very thick, woody pericarp of the camellia (Fig. 1A, B) [ 46, 47].
Based on the Roche 454-pyrosequencing platform, a cotton ball weevil (A. grandis; Coleoptera) transcriptome was generated with over 500,000 reads, which were assembled into 20,841 contigs with an average size of 676 bp [ 20].
These include a species of plant from Gabon and a flightless weevil beetle from Indonesia.
