boll weevil

English Thesaurus

1. greyish weevil that lays its eggs in cotton bolls destroying the cotton (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	weevil,
definition	:	any of several families of mostly small beetles that feed on plants and plant products; especially snout beetles and seed beetles (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	anthonomus, genus anthonomus,
definition	:	weevils destructive of cultivated plants (noun.animal)