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Webster 1913 Edition
Palmerworm
Palm′er-wormˊ
,Noun.
(Zool.)
(a)
Any hairy caterpillar which appears in great numbers, devouring herbage, and wandering about like a palmer. The name is applied also to other voracious insects.
Joel. i. 4.
(b)
In America, the larva of any one of several moths, which destroys the foliage of fruit and forest trees, esp. the larva of
Ypsolophus pometellus
, which sometimes appears in vast numbers. Definition 2024
palmerworm
palmerworm
English
Noun
palmerworm (plural palmerworms)
- A gelechiid moth, Dichomeris ligulella, destructive to certain trees.
Translations
a grub or larva of a particular species
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