noun
1. moth larva that eats foliage of beets and other vegetables
• Syn: ↑beet armyworm
• Hypernyms: ↑caterpillar
• Member Holonyms: ↑Spodoptera, ↑genus Spodoptera
2. moth whose larvae are beet armyworms
• Hypernyms: ↑noctuid moth, ↑noctuid, ↑owlet moth
• Member Holonyms: ↑Spodoptera, ↑genus Spodoptera
Useful english dictionary. 2012.