boll weevil

1. 1.

   greyish weevil that lays its eggs in cotton bolls destroying the cotton

   SynonymsAnthonomus grandis

   Broaderweevil

   Part ofAnthonomus

Questions about boll weevil

What does boll weevil mean?

boll weevil means "greyish weevil that lays its eggs in cotton bolls destroying the cotton".

What is another word for boll weevil?

Close synonyms include Anthonomus grandis. 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 boll weevil a common word?

boll 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.