BOLL WEEVIL

Meaning of BOLL WEEVIL in English

Function: noun

Date: 1895

: a usually grayish or brown weevil ( Anthonomus grandis grandis ) that feeds on the squares and bolls of the cotton plant

Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary. Merriam Webster - Энциклопедический словарь английского языка. 2012

BOLL WEEVIL — noun Date: 1895 a usually grayish or brown weevil ( Anthonomus grandis grandis ) that feeds on the squares and …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
BOLL WEEVIL — Small beetle ( Anthonomus grandis ) found almost everywhere cotton is cultivated. It is the most serious cotton pest in …
Английский словарь Британика
BOLL WEEVIL — noun : a grayish weevil ( Anthonomus grandis ) about 1/4 inch long that infests the cotton plant puncturing and …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
BOLL WEEVIL — 1. a snout beetle, Anthonomus grandis, that attacks the bolls of cotton. 2. Informal. (esp. in the U.S. Congress) a …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
BOLL WEEVIL — Date: 1895 : a usually grayish or brown weevil ( Anthonomus grandis grandis ) that feeds on the squares and …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
BOLL WEEVIL — ■ noun a small weevil which feeds on the fibres of the cotton boll. [ Anthonomus grandis .]
Concise Oxford English vocab
BOLL WEEVIL — [boll weevil] n (1895): a grayish weevil (Anthonomus grandis) that infests the cotton plant and feeds on the squares and …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
BOLL WEEVIL — Boll weevil (Anthonomus grandis) (Anthonomus grandis), the most serious cotton pest in North America, a beetle of the insect family …
Britannica English vocabulary
BOLL WEEVIL — noun an insect that damages cotton plants
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
BOLL WEEVIL — ˌboll ˈweevil BrE AmE noun [countable] an insect that eats and destroys cotton plants
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
BOLL WEEVIL — noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ The boll weevil infests cotton fields and millionaires go bankrupt.
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
BOLL WEEVIL — Small beetle ( Anthonomus grandis ) found almost everywhere cotton is cultivated. It is the most serious cotton pest in …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
BOLL WEEVIL — A small, greyish beetle of the southeastern United States with destructive larvae that hatch in and damage cotton bolls.
English Glossary Of Geography
BOLL WEEVIL — энт. долгоносик хлопковый (энтомология) долгоносик хлопковый (Anthonomus grandis)
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
BOLL WEEVIL — энт. долгоносик хлопковый ( Anthonomus grandis )
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
BOLL WEEVIL — энт. долгоносик хлопковый
Англо-Русский научно-технический словарь
BOLL WEEVIL — энт. долгоносик хлопковый ( Anthonomus grandis )
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
BOLL WEEVIL — энт. долгоносик хлопковый ( Anthonomus grandis )
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
BOLL WEEVIL — долгоносик хлопковый (Anthonomus grandis)
Новый Англо-Русский словарь по биологии
BOLL WEEVIL — долгоносик хлопковый ( Anthonomus grandis )
Новый Англо-Русский биологический словарь
BOLL WEEVIL — долгоносик хлопковый Anthonomus grandis (лат), насекомое-вредитель. Наносит ущерб сельскому хозяйству страны, исчисляемый примерно в 200 млн. долларов в год. Обитает и …
BOLL WEEVIL — долгоносик хлопковый Anthonomus grandis (лат.), насекомое-вредитель. Наносит ущерб сельскому хозяйству страны, исчисляемый примерно в 200 млн. долларов в год. Обитает …
BOLL WEEVIL — энт. долгоносик хлопковый (энтомология) долгоносик хлопковый (Anthonomus grandis)
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
WEEVIL — gran-scarabé
English interlingue dictionary
WEEVIL — bukbuk
English-Visayan vocabulary
WEEVIL — noun Etymology: Middle English wevel, from Old English wifel; akin to Old High German wibil beetle, Old English wefan to …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
BÖLL — biographical name Heinrich Theodor 1917-1985 German writer
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
BOLL — noun Etymology: Middle English Date: 15th century the pod or capsule of a plant (as cotton)
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
WEEVIL — or snout beetle Any of about 40,000 beetle species in the largest family of beetles, Curculionidae, which is also the …
Английский словарь Британика
BOLL — I. ˈbōl noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English, probably variant of bolle bowl — more at bowl 1. : …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
WEEVIL — ˈwēvəl sometimes -(ˌ)vil noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English wivil, wevel, from Old English wifel; akin to Old High …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
WEEVIL — (n.) Any one of numerous species of snout beetles, or Rhynchophora, in which the head is elongated and usually curved …
Английский словарь Webster
BOLL — (v. i.) To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.
Английский словарь Webster
BOLL — (n.) A Scotch measure, formerly in use: for wheat and beans it contained four Winchester bushels; for oats, barley, and …
Английский словарь Webster
BOLL — (n.) The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton; a pericarp of a globular form.
Английский словарь Webster
WEEVIL — ( n. ) Any one of numerous species of snout beetles, or Rhynchophora, in which the head is elongated and …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
BOLL — ( v. i. ) To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
BOLL — ( n. ) The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton; a pericarp of a globular …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
BOLL — ( n. ) A Scotch measure, formerly in use: for wheat and beans it contained four Winchester bushels; for oats, …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
WEEVIL — /wee"veuhl/ , n. 1. Also called snout beetle . any of numerous beetles of the family Curculionidae, which have the …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
BÖLL — /buel/ , n. Heinrich (Theodor) /huyn"rddikh tay"aw dohrdd'/ , 1917-85, German novelist and short-story writer: Nobel prize 1972.
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
BOLL — /bohl/ , n. Bot. a rounded seed vessel or pod of a plant, as of flax or cotton. [ 1400-50; …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
WEEVIL — n. beetle that has a snout-like projection and feeds on various grains and fruits
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
BOLL — n. seedpod (i.e. of the cotton plant); bowl, rounded dish
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
BÖLL — biographical name Heinrich Theodor 1917-1985 German writer
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
WEEVIL — noun Etymology: Middle English wevel, from Old English wifel; akin to Old High German wibil beetle, Old English wefan to …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
BOLL — noun Etymology: Middle English Date: 15th century : the pod or capsule of a plant (as cotton)
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
WEEVIL — noun any one of numerous species of snout beetles, or rhynchophora, in which the head is elongated and usually curved …
Webster English vocab
BOLL — vi to form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed. 2. boll ·noun the pod or capsule of …
Webster English vocab
WEEVIL — [ 'wi:v(ə)l , 'wi:vɪl ] ■ noun a small beetle with an elongated snout, several kinds of which are pests …
Concise Oxford English vocab
BOLL — [ bəʊl ] ■ noun the rounded seed capsule of plants such as cotton or flax. Origin ME (orig. denoting …
Concise Oxford English vocab
WEEVIL — [wee.vil] n [ME wevel, fr. OE wifel; akin to OHG wibil beetle, OE wefan to weave] (bef. 12c): any of …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
BOLL — [boll] n [ME] (15c): the pod or capsule of a plant (as cotton)
Merriam-Webster English vocab
WEEVIL — also called snout beetle true weevil of the insect family Curculionidae. This family is not only the largest family of …
Britannica English vocabulary
WEEVIL — weevil BrE AmE ˈwiːv ə l -ɪl ▷ weevil|s z
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
BOLL — boll BrE AmE bəʊl ⇨bɒʊl. bɒl AmE boʊl (= bowl) ▷ bolls bəʊlz ⇨bɒʊlz. bɒlz AmE boʊlz ▶ ˌ boll …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
WEEVIL — / ˈwiːvl; NAmE / noun a small insect with a hard shell, that eats grain, nuts and other seeds and …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
BOLL — / bəʊl; NAmE boʊl/ noun the part of the cotton plant that contains the seeds •• WORD ORIGIN Middle English …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
WEEVIL — wee ‧ vil /ˈwiːv ə l/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Language: Old English ; Origin: wifil ] a small …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
BÖLL — Böll, Heinrich BrE AmE (1917–1985) a German writer of ↑ novel s . Among his best-known works are Group Portrait …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
BOLL — boll /bəʊl $ boʊl/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Date: 1400-1500 ; Language: Middle Dutch ; Origin: bolle 'bowl, bubble' …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
WEEVIL — n. 1 any destructive beetle of the family Curculionidae, with its head extended into a beak or rostrum and feeding …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
WEEVIL — n. 1 any destructive beetle of the family Curculionidae, with its head extended into a beak or rostrum and feeding …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
BOLL — n. a rounded capsule containing seeds, esp. flax or cotton. boll-weevil a small American or Mexican weevil, Anthonomus grandis, whose …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary

Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary

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