| 单词 | fall cankerworm |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfall cankerworm 1. A caterpillar that attacks buds and leaves; spec. (U.S.) the larva of either of two similar geometrid moths, Alsophila pometaria (more fully fall cankerworm), and Paleacrita vernata (more fully spring cankerworm). Cf. canker n. 3. Also in figurative context. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > eggs or young > [noun] > young or development of young > larva niteOE wormOE grubc1420 canker1440 caterpillarc1440 cankerworm1530 mad1573 bug1594 blote1657 vermicle1657 hexapod1668 grub-worm1752 truffle-worm1753 larva1768 larve1822 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > eggs or young > [noun] > young or development of young > larva > defined by parasitism or feeding > that destroys or eats plants canker1440 rukel?1440 cankerworm1530 canker-blossom1600 whirl-worm1643 whirl1658 bud-worm1850 stem borer1921 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Geometridae > geometra brumata (winter-moth) > larva cankerworm1841 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement f. xxiiv Cancker worme, uers de chancre [read uer de chancre]. 1611 Bible (King James) Joel i. 4 That which the locust hath left, hath the canker-worme eaten. View more context for this quotation 1778 Pract. Gardener 91 Clip off the extremities of the shoots of gooseberries, which will in a great measure prevent or kill the cankerworm. 1820 W. Scott Monastery I. v. 162 Pestilential heresy..as a canker-worm in the rose-garland of the Spouse. 1841 R. W. Emerson Lect. on Times in Wks. (1906) II. 260 The canker-worms have crawled to the topmost bough of the wild elm. 1863 H. W. Longfellow Birds of Killingworth 196 From the trees spun down the canker~worms upon the passers-by. 1944 R. Matheson Entomol. for Introd. Courses xiv. 275 The eggs may serve to carry the species over the winter, as in the tent-caterpillars, gipsy moth, fall cankerworm, and others. 1996 E. Tenner Why Things bite Back vi. 124 They overwhelm native tree pests, including cankerworms and tent caterpillars, by outfeeding them. < as lemmas |
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