black weevil

1. 1.

   brown weevil that infests stored grain especially rice

   Synonymsrice weevilSitophylus oryzae

   Broaderweevil

   Part ofSitophylus

Questions about black weevil

What does black weevil mean?

black weevil means "brown weevil that infests stored grain especially rice".

What is another word for black weevil?

Close synonyms include rice weevil, Sitophylus oryzae. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is black weevil a common word?

black weevil is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.