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CANKERWORM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cankerworm mean?
• CANKERWORM (noun)
The noun CANKERWORM has 1 sense:
1. green caterpillar of a geometrid moth; pest of various fruit and shade trees
Familiarity information: CANKERWORM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Green caterpillar of a geometrid moth; pest of various fruit and shade trees
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("cankerworm" is a kind of...):
caterpillar (a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cankerworm"):
spring cankerworm (variably colored looper; larva of Paleacrita vernata)
fall cankerworm (green or brown white-striped looper; larva of Alsophila pometaria)
Holonyms ("cankerworm" is a member of...):
family Geometridae; Geometridae (measuring worms)
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