flour weevil

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   an insect that infests flour and stored grains

   Synonymsflour beetle

   Broaderdarkling beetle

   Part ofTribolium

Questions about flour weevil

What does flour weevil mean?

flour weevil means "an insect that infests flour and stored grains".

What is another word for flour weevil?

Close synonyms include flour beetle. 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 flour weevil a common word?

flour 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.