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span-worm
span-worm n. U.S. = looper n.1
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surveyor1682
looper1731
span-worm1820
geometric caterpillar1835
measuring worm1843
span-worm1852
inch-worma1861
measurer1868
loop-worm1880
1820 Amer. Farmer I. 375/3 What can our obliging correspondents tell us about the..best method of destroying that dreadful plague of our orchards, the span worm.
1903 W. J. Holland Moth Bk. 323 The larvæ, which are commonly known as ‘measuring-worms’, ‘span-worms’, or ‘loopers’, have the power in many cases of attaching themselves by the posterior claspers to the stems and branches of plants, and extending the remainder of the body outwardly at an angle.
1972 L. A. Swan & C. S. Papp Common Insects N. Amer. xix. 293 The Bruce spanworm is a major defoliator of aspen in the prairie regions.
span-worm
span-worm n.
Brit. 
/ˈspanwəːm/
, /ˈspanwəːm/U.S. /ˈspænˌwərm/
U.S. (see quots.)./ˈspænˌwərm/ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Geometridae > class of caterpillars > member of
surveyor1682
looper1731
span-worm1820
geometric caterpillar1835
measuring worm1843
span-worm1852
inch-worma1861
measurer1868
loop-worm1880
1852 T. W. Harris Treat. Insects New Eng. (ed. 2) 458 The caterpillars of the Geometræ of Linnæus,..or geometers, span-worms, and loopers, have received these several names from their peculiar manner of moving.
1885 H. C. McCook Tenants Old Farm 104 A very familiar race of caterpillars, the Geometers, or span~worms.
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