单词 | boll-weevil |
释义 | > as lemmasboll-weevil boll-weevil n. (in full cotton-boll weevil) a weevil ( Anthonomus grandis) destructive to the cotton-plant; also figurative. ΘΚΠ 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) cotton-boll weevil1895 1895 Insect Life Mar. 295 Report on the Mexican Cotton-Boll Weevil in Texas..by C. H. Tyler Townsend..[dated] December 20, 1894. 1903 Westm. Gaz. 26 Nov. 12/1 The boll weevil..has caused America a loss of £14,000,000. 1906 Westm. Gaz. 19 Dec. 1/3 The Mexican cotton boll-weevil. 1906 Springfield (Mass.) Weekly Republican 19 July 16 The ‘boll-weevil democrats’ is the term of opprobrium which a southern paper applies to democrats who favour Hearst. 1928 Manch. Guardian Weekly 31 Aug. 180/1 Reports of boll weevil damage and crop deterioration. 1950 A. Lomax Mister Jelly Roll (1952) 113 The longshoremen had two parades—one for the union men and one for the boll weevils, the scabs. < as lemmas |
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