spring cankerworm

spring cankerworm

noun
See under cankerworm.

Origin:
1885–90, Americanism

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Spring cankerworm is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
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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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spring cankerworm

noun
variably colored looper; larva of Paleacrita vernata 
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