cutworm

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Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
17
Letters
7

Definition of cutworm

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. 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.”

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Etymology

From cut + worm, from the habit of eating through the stem of plants, or possibly from cutty (“short”).

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