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Meaning of Cankerworm | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Either of two caterpillars, the larvae of geometrid moths, that are destructive to fruit, buds and leaves.
  2. A corrupting or destructive force.
    figuratively

Equivalents

العربية اليرقة الخضراء

Examples

“O cursed Eld the cankerworme of writs, / How may these rimes, so rude as doth appeare, / Hope to endure, sith workes of heauenly wits / Are quite deuourd, and brought to nought by little bits?”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

cankerwort cankin Çankırı cankle Canklow Canköy

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