单词 | cutworm |
释义 | cutworm (once / 79325 pages) n WORD FAMILY cutworm: cutworms USAGE EXAMPLESInteragency Grizzly Bear Study Team research shows that the bears are replacing that food source with things like the army cutworm moth. Washington Times(Sep 03, 2016) One exception is a brown caterpillar named the cutworm, which has an annoying habit of biting off seedlings just above the soil line. Washington Post(Jul 19, 2016) The repellant effect of bursts of ultrasonic sound is being tested in Canada against corn borer and cutworm moths. Rachel Carson, Silent Spring(1962) n North American moth whose larvae feed on young plant stems cutting them off at the ground Hypo|Hyper Chorizagrotis auxiliaris, army cutworm larvae (of a noctuid moth) that travel in large groups and destroy grains and alfalfa in the midwestern states caterpillar a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth |
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