budworm
nounEtymology From bud + worm.
1
Any of various moth caterpillars.
- After working briefly for a federal entomologist to control the spruce budworm — and spraying DDT from the air — he returned to the Adirondacks in 1946 to be district ranger at Cranberry Lake for 11 years.2007 January 21, The Associated Press, “Adirondacks Are His Life, All 101 Years and Counting”, in New York Times:
- Derived terms
- lesser budworm, spruce budworm, tobacco budworm, western spruce budworm