"weevil" is a commonly used word in written English.
You can use it to refer to any of the beetles in the family Curculionidae that feed on stored grains and other dried vegetable products. For example, "The stored grains had been infested by weevils."
What he did regret was that, earlier in life, he had strayed from his faith by trying to make a career as a singer.In this section An African answer to African wars Messages in blood Ambiguity's path to murder Revealing the darker side Setting a worm to catch a weevil ReprintsThe banned, but still-influential, Muslim Brotherhood was quick to condemn the bus bombing.
Ants nip the feet of marauding grasshoppers and protect cotton in Guatemala from the boll weevil.
It is by far the earliest evidence of "brood care": the creature is carrying about 60 eggs in a waxy sac on her abdomen, and is accompanied in her resin tomb by six nymphs, presumably also hers (along with an unfortunate weevil).
In April, Mr Museveni promised to curb corruption in the army, where what he called "weevil" officers pocket salaries of soldiers who are dead or have deserted.
A drop of water the size of a weevil would evaporate rapidly.
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.
Most bean-weevil larvae (Bruchinae) develop in dried seeds of leguminous plants (peas, beans).
Many starved – the food was so poor that it bordered on the surreal – the daily midday meal consisted of a plate of water with a single weevil-infested bean.
Together they form a planetary defence team capable of fending off marauding aliens and giant flying space weevils unleashed on midtown Manhattan by a demi-god with daddy issues and an inter-dimensional portal.
But given the possibility of substantial defections from the right of his own party, Mr Bush will need more than a few boll weevils to help him.On the face of it, he has two advantages in seeking to peel off Democrats.
The third exhibit looks as if it had been attacked by metal-eating weevils.
