bollworm
nounEtymology From boll + worm.
1
The larvae of any of various species of moth that are pests to cotton.
- […] which means that sowing at the usual rate of about two and one half kelehs of seed per feddan, we may sow at the same time from 4,000 to 5,000 living pink bollworms in the infested seeds; […]1916, F. C. Willcocks, The Insect and Related Pests of Egypt (volume 1, page 176)
- Derived terms
- cotton bollworm, pink bollworm, pinkspotted bollworm, red bollworm, rough bollworm, South American bollworm moth, spiny bollworm, spotted bollworm, Sudan bollworm