budworm

budworm
/bud"werrm'/, n.
any of several lepidopterous larvae, esp. the spruce budworm, that attack the buds of plants.
[1840-50, Amer.; BUD1 + WORM]

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  • tobacco budworm — noun Date: 1918 an American noctuid moth (Heliothis virescens syn. Helicoverpa virescens) whose striped and variably colored larva feeds on buds and young leaves especially of tobacco and cotton …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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