palmerworm

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any small, terrestrial invertebrate, usually an agricultural pest and having many legs and a hairy body. archaic
    — And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
  2. A gelechiid moth, Dichomeris ligulella, destructive to fruit trees.
    — If history repeats itself in the case of the palmerworm, fruit growers are not likely to encounter this insect in injurious numbers more than once in a lifetime, since in the past outbreaks have occurred only at intervals of[…]

词形变化

palmerworms plural palmer-worm alternative palmer worm alternative

词源

From palmer + worm, because wandering about like a palmer.
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