weevil

Senso (Inglese)

1. Any of many tens of thousands of species of herbivorous beetles, ranging in size from tiny to large, in the superfamily Curculionoidea, the most characteristic species having the head projecting in a distinctive snout with the mouthparts at the tip.
2. Any of many tens of thousands of species of herbivorous beetles of various sizes, in the family Curculionidae within the superfamily Curculionoidea.
3. Any of many similar, but more distantly related, beetles such as the biscuit weevil (Stegobium paniceum).
4. (derogatory, figuratively) A loathsome person.

Concetti

punteruolo

curculionide

camola

gorgoglione

tarlo

tonchio

curculione

anobio

stupiamo

antonomo

balanino

sinonimi

snout beetle

plant-louse

grub

chrysalis

curculio

hickey

whatchamacallit

woodworm

wood worm

worm

🪱

aphis

moth-worm

beetle

🪲

caterpillar

🐛

Traduzioni

gorgojo

charançon

Rüsselkäfer

snuitkever

curculio

corc

🪱

gorgulho

Curculionidae

Curculionoidea

kurtlu

coccinelle

abasourdir

Holzwurm

Curculionoidea

σιταρόψειρα

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈwiːv(ə)l/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: wevel

Ereditato da inglese antico: wifel

Affine Old Saxon: *wivil

Affine Middle Low German: wevel

Affine tedesco antico alto: wibil

Affine tedesco: Wiebel

Affine lituano: vãbalas

Affine norse antico: vifill

Affine olandese: tortwevel

Affine islandese: tordýfill

Affine norvegese: tordivel

Affine inglese antico: tordwifel

Affine svedese: tordyvel

Affine russo: ве́блица

In summary

From Middle English wevel, from Old English wifel (“beetle”), from Proto-West Germanic *wibil, from Proto-Germanic *wibilaz, from Proto-Indo-European *webʰel-, from *(h₁)webʰ- (“to wave, to weave”), said to be from the woven appearance of a weevil’s larval case, + *-el-, *-l̥- (diminutive or attributive suffix); see also wave and weave.
Compare Old Saxon *wivil (“beetle”); Middle Low German wevel; Old High German wibil, wipil (modern German Wiebel (“beetle; chafer”)); Lithuanian vãbalas (“beetle; weevil”); Old Norse vifill, as in tordyfill (“dung beetle, scarab”) (whence Dutch tortwevel; Icelandic tordýfill, Norwegian tordivel, Old English tordwifel, Swedish tordyvel); dialectal Russian ве́блица (véblica, “intestinal worm”).

Frasi

Pollination is by certain insects , namely the belid weevil "Rhopalotria mollis".

L'impollinazione è di alcuni insetti, vale a dire il tonchio di Belid "Rhopalotria Mollis".