palmerworm
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palmerworm
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From palmer + worm, because wandering about like a palmer.
noun palmerworms · palmer-worm · palmer worm
- Any small, terrestrial invertebrate, usually an agricultural pest and having many legs and a hairy body. 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.
- 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[…]
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