Definition of Cornworm

1. a corn weevil [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cornworm

cornuate
cornubite
cornucopia
cornucopian
cornucopias
cornuses
cornute
cornuted
cornutes
cornuting
cornuto
cornutor
cornutors
cornutos
cornwallite
cornworm (current term)
cornworms
corny
cornybacteria
corocore
corocores
corocoro
corocoros
corocotta
corocottas
corodies
corody
corol
corolla
corollaceous

Literary usage of Cornworm

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1907)
"cornworm (Heliothis armiger).—This species is always present, and reports received from all over the State show that there was not any great increase of its ..."

2. Old English Glosses: Chiefly Unpublished by Arthur Sampson Napier (1900)
"... weevil,' but I think that here too it means ' scarlet dye,' and not ' cornworm,' which one would expect to be ..."

3. The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation by James William Tutt, Malcolm Burr (1890)
"In connection with this species, a paragraph by Prof. Smith is interesting. He writes of the larva under the name of " The cornworm " :—" This pest, ..."

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