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单词 corn-worm
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corn-wormn.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcorn-worm.
1. The larva of the Corn-moth or other insect, destructive to grain.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > eggs or young > [noun] > young or development of young > larva > defined by parasitism or feeding > attacking grain
corn-worm1648
redworm1705
a800 Corpus Gloss. 2114 Ue[r]miculus, cornuurma.
c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 117 Uermiculus, cornwurma.
1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Een Kalander..a Corne-worme.
1862 Chambers's Encycl. at Cornmoth The corn-worm eats into the grain, and attaches grains together by a web.
2. U.S. (See quot. 1889.)
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1850 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1849: Agric. 333 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (31st Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 20, Pt. 2) VI They are, I believe, called ‘White corn-worms’.
1889 Cent. Dict. Heliothis, a genus of noctuid moths... The larva, known as the boll-worm and corn-worm,..is especially injurious to the fruit of cotton, maize, and the tomato.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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