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cutworm

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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

CUTWORM

CUTWORM Cut "worm ` (-wrm `), n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A caterpillar which at night eats off young plants of cabbage, corn, etc. , usually at the ground. Some kinds ascend fruit trees and eat off the flower buds. During the day, they conceal themselves in the earth. The common cutworms are the larvæ of various species of Agrotis and related genera of noctuid moths.

New American Oxford Dictionary

cutworm

cut worm |ˈkətwərm | ▶noun a moth caterpillar that lives in the upper layers of the soil and eats through the stems of young plants at ground level. [Several species in the family Noctuidae. ]

Oxford Dictionary

cutworm

cut |worm |ˈkʌtwəːm | ▶noun a moth caterpillar that lives in the upper layers of the soil and eats through the stems of young plants at ground level. ●Several species in the family Noctuidae, in particular the large yellow underwing (see yellow underwing ).