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budworm

noun

Etymology

From bud + worm.

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

Definitions

  1. Any of various moth caterpillars.

    • After working briefly for a federal entomologist to control the spruce budworm — and spraying DDT from the air — he returned to the Adirondacks in 1946 to be district ranger at Cranberry Lake for 11 years.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for budworm. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA