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webworm
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun webworm has 1 sense
- webworm(n = noun.animal) Array - several gregarious moth larvae that spin webs over foliage on which they feed; Array is a member of family lasiocampidae, lasiocampidae
has particulars: fall webworm, hyphantria cunea, garden webworm, loxostege similalis
is a kind of caterpillar
CIDE DICTIONARY
webworm, n.
Any one of various species of moths whose gregarious larvæ eat the leaves of trees, and construct a large web to which they retreat when not feeding. [1913 Webster]
" The most destructive webworms belong to the family Bombycidæ , as the fall webworm (Hyphantria textor ), which feeds on various fruit and forest trees, and the common tent caterpillar, which feeds on various fruit trees (see Tent caterpillar , under Tent .) The grapevine webworm is the larva of a geometrid moth (see Vine inchworm , under Vine )."
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