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webworm moth en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. Any moth whose larvae inhabit web-like structures.
   • He shuffled along next to Randall, his hand wrapped up to the wrist in gauze and tape so that it looked like a webworm moth nest wound tight in a pecan tree, a yarn of larvae eating at the ripe green leaves beneath to burst forth in black-winged flurry in the throat-closing heat of fall. 2011, Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones, Bloomsbury (2017), page 132:

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soybean leaf folder · sorghum webworm · orange webworm moth · burrowing webworm moth · beet webworm moth · papaya webworm moth · oak webworm moth · recondite webworm moth · mesquite webworm moth · garden webworm moth · fall webworm moth · asimina webworm moth · spotted beet webworm moth · cabbage webworm moth · southern beet webworm · mimosa webworm · bluegrass sod webworm moth · bluegrass webworm moth · sweetpotato webworm moth · eggplant webworm moth · harlequin webworm moth · bean-leaf webworm moth