cabbage seedpod weevil

noun

: a small grayish black weevil (Ceutorhynchus assimilis) related to the cabbage curculio but smaller and feeding on and destroying the developing seeds of cabbage and other cruciferous plants

Word History

First Known Use

1947, in the meaning defined above

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