cankerworm
an inchworm, the larva of either of two geometrid moths, Paleacrita vernata(spring cankerworm ) and Alsophila pometaria(fall cankerworm: ) a foliage pest of various fruit and shade trees.
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How to use cankerworm in a sentence
The stomachs of four other birds of the same species contained about 600 eggs and 105 female moths of the cankerworm.
Bird Day; How to prepare for it | Charles Almanzo BabcockThe cankerworm stood at his right hand, and of all his richest, most precious work, there remains only the shadow.
Modern Painters, Volume V (of 5) | John RuskinOne naturalist found that four Chickadees had eaten one hundred and five female cankerworm moths.
The Bird Study Book | Thomas Gilbert PearsonThis gives a total of nearly twenty thousand cankerworm moth eggs destroyed by four birds in a few minutes.
The Bird Study Book | Thomas Gilbert PearsonThen surely would the years eaten by the cankerworm be given back!
A Bottle in the Smoke | Milne Rae
British Dictionary definitions for cankerworm
/ (ˈkæŋkəˌwɜːm) /
the larva of either of two geometrid moths, Paleacrita vernata or Alsophila pometaria, which feed on and destroy fruit and shade trees in North America
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