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palmer-worm

palmer-worm is the alternative form of palmerworm.

Meaning of palmerworm

Noun

palmerworm (plural palmerworms)

  1. (archaic) Any small, terrestrial invertebrate, usually an agricultural pest and having many legs and a hairy body.
    • And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Joel 2:25
  2. A gelechiid moth, Dichomeris ligulella, destructive to fruit trees.
    • If history repeats itself in the case of the palmerworm, fruit growers are not likely to encounter this insect in injurious numbers more than once in a lifetime, since in the past outbreaks have occurred only at intervals of[…]1922, Altus Lacy Quaintance, Edouard Horace Siegler, The More Important Apple Insects, page 58

Forms of palmer-worm

pluralpalmer-worms

Questions about palmer-worm

What is palmer-worm the alternative form of?
Palmer-worm is the alternative form of palmerworm.

Words near palmer-worm in the dictionary

  1. Palmer's Green
  2. Palmer's liveforever
  3. Palmer's liveforevers
  4. palmer's staff
  5. palmer's staffs
  6. palmer-worm
  7. palmer-worms
  8. palmered
  9. Palmeri
  10. Palmerian
  11. palmeries

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