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bollworm

noun

Etymology

From boll + worm.

  1. inherited from *wr̥mis✻
  2. inherited from *wurmiz✻
  3. inherited from wyrm — “worm, snake”
  4. inherited from worm
  5. compounded as bollworm — “boll + worm”

Definitions

  1. The larvae of any of various species of moth that are pests to cotton.

    • […] which means that sowing at the usual rate of about two and one half kelehs of seed per feddan, we may sow at the same time from 4,000 to 5,000 living pink bollworms in the infested seeds; […]

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