snuitkever — meaning in English

English meaning

• weevil noun Any of tens of thousands of species of small beetles, many with a distinctive elongated snout, that typically feed on plants or stored grain.

Senses

snuitkever is used for these senses in English:

• snout beetle A weevil; specifically, a true weevil ("beetle belonging to the family Curculionidae")
• weevil Any of many tens of thousands of species of herbivorous beetles, ranging in size from tiny to large, in the superfamily Curculionoidea, the most characteristic species having the head projecting in a distinctive snout with the mouthparts at the tip.