the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Curculionoidea or Rhyncophora > family Curculionidae or genus Curculio > anthonomus grandis (boll weevil) (1)
(in full cotton-boll weevil) a weevil (Anthonomus grandis) destructive to the cotton-plant; also figurative.