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单词 cabbage caterpillar
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cabbage caterpillar
cabbage caterpillar n. any of various caterpillars which feed on the leaves of cabbages; esp. those of cabbage white butterflies.
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1658 tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects ii. v, in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (new ed.) II. 1041 When she had devoured some Cabbage Catterpillers in the garden, after much vomiting, her belly swelled.
1763 R. Brookes New Syst. Nat. Hist. IV. xi. 208 The cabbage Caterpillar does a great deal of mischief among those plants, in dry seasons, but it is killed by the rain.
1881 Amer. Naturalist 15 145 I placed ten cabbage caterpillars (Pieris rapæ Schrank), in each of two small wooden boxes.
1904 Canad. Horticulturist July 309/2 The best protection against cabbage caterpillars is to spray with paris green or hellebore.
2004 S. Lovejoy Blessing of Toads 130 Over the course of three hours, they [sc. chickadees] rid my gardens of several hundred of the destructive cabbage caterpillars.
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