FLOUR WEEVIL

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

An insect that infests flour and stored grains

Synonyms:

flour beetle; flour weevil

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("flour weevil" is a kind of...):

darkling beetle; darkling groung beetle; tenebrionid (sluggish hard-bodied black terrestrial weevil whose larvae feed on e.g. decaying plant material or grain)

Holonyms ("flour weevil" is a member of...):

genus Tribolium; Tribolium (flour beetles)

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