snout beetle

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   small weevil having a prolonged snout; destructive to e.g. grains and nuts

   Broaderweevil

   Part ofCurculionidae

Questions about snout beetle

What does snout beetle mean?

snout beetle means "small weevil having a prolonged snout; destructive to e.g. grains and nuts".

Is snout beetle a common word?

snout beetle 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.