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CANKERWORM

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Green caterpillar of a geometrid moth; pest of various fruit and shade trees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("cankerworm" is a kind of...):

caterpillar (a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cankerworm"):

spring cankerworm (variably colored looper; larva of Paleacrita vernata)

fall cankerworm (green or brown white-striped looper; larva of Alsophila pometaria)

Holonyms ("cankerworm" is a member of...):

family Geometridae; Geometridae (measuring worms)

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