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rice weevil

rice weevil noun: a pest of species Sitophilus oryzae, that attacks several crops, including wheat, rice, and maize.

Noun

rice weevil (plural rice weevils)

  1. A pest of species Sitophilus oryzae, that attacks several crops, including wheat, rice, and maize.

rice weevil meaning in Tamil

rice weevil in Tamil

அரிசி கூன்வண்டு

Forms of rice weevil

pluralrice weevils

Words formed from rice weevil

  • dicky rice weevil
  • greater rice weevil

Questions about rice weevil

What does rice weevil mean?
Rice weevil means a pest of species Sitophilus oryzae, that attacks several crops, including wheat, rice, and maize.
What is rice weevil in Tamil?
Rice weevil in Tamil is அரிசி கூன்வண்டு. See Rice weevil meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is rice weevil?
Rice weevil is a noun.
What is the plural of rice weevil?
The plural of rice weevil is rice weevils.

Words near rice weevil in the dictionary

  1. rice tenrecs
  2. rice vermicelli
  3. rice vinegar
  4. rice vinegars
  5. rice water
  6. rice weevil
  7. rice weevils
  8. rice wine
  9. rice wines
  10. Rice's theorem
  11. Rice's whale

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rice weevil (page history and authors); rice weevil (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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