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say it: WEE-vuhl
weevil is a noun meaning "any of several families of mostly small beetles that feed on plants and plant products; especially snout beetles and seed beetles". It carries one recorded sense.
any of several families of mostly small beetles that feed on plants and plant products; especially snout beetles and seed beetles
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for weevil come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.