cankerworm
/kang-ker-wurm/US // ˈkæŋ kərˌwɜrm //UK // (ˈkæŋkəˌwɜːm) //
腐皮病,蠹虫,腐烂病,溃疡病
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : the striped, green caterpillar of any of several geometrid moths: a foliage pest of various fruit and shade trees, as Paleacrita vernata and Alsophila pometaria.
Examples
The stomachs of four other birds of the same species contained about 600 eggs and 105 female moths of the cankerworm.
The cankerworm stood at his right hand, and of all his richest, most precious work, there remains only the shadow.
One naturalist found that four Chickadees had eaten one hundred and five female cankerworm moths.
This gives a total of nearly twenty thousand cankerworm moth eggs destroyed by four birds in a few minutes.
Then surely would the years eaten by the cankerworm be given back!
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