Meaning of palmerworm | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any small, terrestrial invertebrate, usually an agricultural pest and having many legs and a hairy body.
   archaic
2. A gelechiid moth, Dichomeris ligulella, destructive to fruit trees.

Examples

“And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.”

“If history repeats itself in the case of the palmerworm, fruit growers are not likely to encounter this insect in injurious numbers more than once in a lifetime, since in the past outbreaks have occurred only at intervals of[…]”

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