ALL meanings of boll weevil
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B b - noun boll weevil a greyish weevil, Anthonomus grandis, of the southern US and Mexico, whose larvae live in and destroy cotton bolls 3
- noun boll weevil a small, grayish weevil (Anthonomus grandis) with a long snout, whose larvae, when hatched in the immature bolls of cotton plants, destroy the bolls 3
- noun boll weevil a conservative Democratic politician from a state of the southern U.S. 3
- noun boll weevil a snout beetle, Anthonomus grandis, that attacks the bolls of cotton. 1
- noun boll weevil Informal. (especially in the U.S. Congress) a Southern Democrat with conservative views who often votes with the Republicans as part of a Southern or conservative power bloc. 1
- noun boll weevil beetle measuring an average length of six millimeters (¼ inch), which feeds on cotton buds and flowers, native to Central America. 0