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SPRING CANKERWORM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does spring cankerworm mean?
• SPRING CANKERWORM (noun)
The noun SPRING CANKERWORM has 1 sense:
1. variably colored looper; larva of Paleacrita vernata
Familiarity information: SPRING CANKERWORM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Variably colored looper; larva of Paleacrita vernata
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("spring cankerworm" is a kind of...):
cankerworm (green caterpillar of a geometrid moth; pest of various fruit and shade trees)
Holonyms ("spring cankerworm" is a member of...):
genus Paleacrita; Paleacrita (geometrid moths)
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