bollworm

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
19
Letters
8

Definition of bollworm

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  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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Etymology

From boll + worm.

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