Meaning of pillworm | Babel Free

Definitions

Any myriapod which rolls up for protection; a galleyworm.

rare

Examples

“Another one (Armadillo rugulosus) is endowed with the power of rolling itself up in a ball like the "pill-worm" of the Old Country”

“Objects of the Scheme:—(1) To produce intra hissutum and hissutum barbadense hybrids (F₁₁) possessing resistance to blackarm, red leaf blight and pillworm besides having economic and agronomic values and suitable for growing as such or by budding on perennial of stocks.”

“The PILLWORM is restless, aggressive, and nearly as destructive as, though more sophisticated than, the APHID.”

“The high beach inhabitants include different kinds of periwinkles, a burrowing worm called the pill worm, and the beach hoppers that often parade along the beach in great numbers in early morning or twilight.”

“an event which happened years earlier had eaten away at the parish in his charge as a pillworm eats at a plant.”

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