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Cankerworm

noun
1.
Green caterpillar of a geometrid moth; pest of various fruit and shade trees.



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"Cankerworm" Quotes from Famous Books



... is the precious harvest of the earth, But once, when harvest waved upon a land, The noisome cankerworm and caterpillar, Locusts, and all the swarming, foul-born broods, Fastened upon it with swift, greedy jaws, And turned the harvest into pestilence, Until men said, What profits it ...
— George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy • George Willis Cooke


Words linked to "Cankerworm" :   fall cankerworm, family Geometridae, Geometridae, caterpillar


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