cutworm
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 14
- Words With Friends
- 17
- Letters
- 7
Definition of cutworm
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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The larva of any of the many moths of the family Noctuidae, considered an agricultural pest.
“I listened while they discussed putting stove ash at the base of tomato plants to keep off cutworms or Mama bragged on how fast I was learning to read.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From cut + worm, from the habit of eating through the stem of plants, or possibly from cutty (“short”).
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