HyperDic: tobacco_budworm

English > 1 sense of the expression tobacco budworm:
NOUNanimaltobacco budworm, corn earworm, cotton bollworm, tomato fruitworm, vetchworm, Heliothis zialarva of a noctuid moth
English > tobacco budworm: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaninglarva of a noctuid moth; highly destructive to especially corn and cotton and tomato crops.
Synonymscorn earworm, cotton bollworm, tomato fruitworm, vetchworm, Heliothis zia
Member ofNoctuidae, family Noctuidaecutworms
BroaderbollwormAny of various moth caterpillars that destroy cotton bolls

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