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fall cankerworm

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can⋅ker⋅worm

[kang-ker-wurm]
–noun
the striped, green caterpillar of any of several geometrid moths: a foliage pest of various fruit and shade trees, as Paleacrita vernata (spring cankerworm) and Alsophila pometaria (fall cankerworm).


Origin:
1520–30; canker + worm
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fall cankerworm

noun
green or brown white-striped looper; larva of Alsophila pometaria 
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