| 单词 | tobacco worm |
| 释义 | > as lemmastobacco worm tobacco worm n. the larva of the tobacco fly. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Sphingidae > member of genus Protoparce (tobacco fly) > larva or tobacco worm horn-worm1676 tobacco worm1688 1688Tobacco worm: [see tobacco fly n.]. 1737 J. Brickell Nat. Hist. N.-Carolina 168 The Tobacco-worm..has two sharp horns on its Head. 1773 Hist. Brit. Dominions N. Amer. xi. iii. 190 The tobacco-worm is a caterpillar of the size and figure of a silk-worm. 1872 1st Rep. Vermont State Board Agric. 1871–2 319 The large night-flying moths..produce the large larvæ, as the potato-worm and the tobacco-worm. 1962 Metcalf & Flint Destructive & Useful Insects (ed. 4) xiii. 594 The best known of tobacco insects..are the large green tobacco worms with white bars on the sides and a slender horn at the end of the body. < as lemmas |
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