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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
  2. Palmer drought index
  3. Palmer index
  4. Palmer Lake
  5. Palmer Peninsula
  6. palmer worm
  7. palmer worms
  8. Palmer's Green
  9. Palmer's liveforever
  10. Palmer's liveforevers
  11. palmer's staff

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