noun
larva of a noctuid moth; highly destructive to especially corn and cotton and tomato crops
• Syn: ↑corn earworm, ↑tomato fruitworm, ↑tobacco budworm, ↑vetchworm, ↑Heliothis zia
• Hypernyms: ↑bollworm
• Member Holonyms: ↑Noctuidae, ↑family Noctuidae
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noun : corn earworm — used of the worm when feeding in cotton bolls
Useful english dictionary. 2012.