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palmerworms

palmerworms is the plural 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

Questions about palmerworms

What is palmerworms the plural of?
Palmerworms is the plural of palmerworm.

Words near palmerworms in the dictionary

  1. Palmerstonian
  2. Palmersville
  3. Palmerton
  4. Palmertons
  5. palmerworm
  6. palmerworms
  7. palmery
  8. palmestry
  9. palmetoic
  10. palmette
  11. palmettes

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