black palmer

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black palmer

noun black palmers

colloquial, obsolete The larva of the turnip sawfly, an agricultural pest Mr. Wooldridge informed me, that on the first appearance of the insects, before he had himself observed them, one of his older neighbours remarked to him, that "the yellow flies which produce the black palmers were then abundant in the turnip fields;" […]
Similar: black canker, black jack, nigger

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@misc{black_palmer_2026,
  title = {black palmer},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/black%20palmer},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}