boll weevil
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- a small, grayish weevil (Anthonomus grandis) with a long snout, whose larvae, when hatched in the immature bolls of cotton plants, destroy the bolls
- Slang a conservative Democratic politician from a state of the southern U.S.
See boll weevil in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun- A small, grayish, long-snouted beetle (Anthonomus grandis) of Mexico and the southern United States, having adults that puncture cotton buds and larvae that hatch in and damage cotton bolls.
- Informal A conservative white Southern Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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