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cotton bollworm

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corn earworm

  [eer-wurm]
–noun
the larva of a cosmopolitan noctuid moth, Heliothis zea, that is highly destructive to crops, esp. corn, cotton, and tomato.
Also called bollworm, cotton bollworm, tomato fruitworm.

Origin:
1795–1805, Americanism
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cotton bollworm

noun
larva of a noctuid moth; highly destructive to especially corn and cotton and tomato crops [syn: corn earworm] 
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