EARWORM

Meaning of EARWORM in English

n. tune or melody or song that gets stuck in a person's mind and the person repeats it over and over in his/her head; moth larva that eats corn

Explanatory English dictionary bed edition. Толковый словарь английского языка Редакция bed. 2012

EARWORM — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun : any of certain larval insects (as the corn earworm) that feed in the developing maize ear
Webster's New International English Dictionary
EARWORM — earworm BrE AmE ˈɪə wɜːm AmE \ ˈɪr wɝːm ▷ earworm|s z
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
EARWORM — ear ‧ worm /ˈɪəˌwɜːm $ ˈɪrwɜːrm/ BrE AmE noun [countable] informal a tune that you keep thinking about in your …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
CORN EARWORM — noun Date: 1802 a noctuid moth ( Helicoverpa zea syn. Heliothis zea ) whose large striped yellow-headed larva is especially …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
CORN EARWORM — or cotton bollworm or tomato fruitworm larva ( Heliothis zea , family Noctuidae) that damages corn, tomato, cotton, and other …
Английский словарь Британика
CORN EARWORM — noun : the large smooth longitudinally striped yellow-headed destructive larva of a noctuid moth ( Heliothis zea ) that is …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
CORN EARWORM — /ear"werrm'/ the larva of a cosmopolitan noctuid moth, Heliothis zea, that is highly destructive to crops, esp. corn, cotton, and …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
CORN EARWORM — noun Date: 1802 : a noctuid moth ( Helicoverpa zea syn. Heliothis zea ) whose large striped yellow-headed larva is …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
CORN EARWORM — [corn earworm] n (1802): a noctuid moth (Heliothis zea) whose large striped yellow-headed larva is esp. destructive to Indian corn, …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
TOMATO FRUITWORM — noun Date: circa 1891 corn earworm
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
COTTON BOLLWORM — noun Date: 1870 corn earworm
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
BOLLWORM — noun Date: 1847 corn earworm
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
CORN — I or maize Zea mays ) of the family Poaceae (or Gramineae). It originated in the New World and has …
Английский словарь Британика
BOLLWORM — Any larva of various moth species, including the pink bollworm (family Gelechiidae) and some Heliothis species (family Noctuidae; see corn …
Английский словарь Британика
VETCHWORM — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun : corn earworm
Webster's New International English Dictionary
TOMATO FRUITWORM — noun : corn earworm — used especially when the larva is infesting tomatoes
Webster's New International English Dictionary
TOBACCO BUDWORM — noun 1. : a small rusty often green-striped caterpillar that is the larva of a noctuid moth ( Heliothis virescens …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
HELIOTHIS MOTH — noun Australia : corn earworm
Webster's New International English Dictionary
HELIOTHIS — ˌhēlēˈōthə̇s noun Usage: capitalized Etymology: New Latin, irregular from Greek hēliōtis (n.) dawn, (adjective) of the sun, from hēlios sun …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
COTTON BOLLWORM — noun : corn earworm — used of the worm when feeding in cotton bolls
Webster's New International English Dictionary
BOLLWORM — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun 1. : corn earworm — used chiefly when the larva is feeding on cotton bolls 2. : any …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
TOMATO FRUITWORM — /frooht"werrm'/ . See corn earworm . [ 1890-95 ]
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
COTTON BOLLWORM. — See corn earworm . [ 1865-70, Amer. ]
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
BOLLWORM — /bohl"werrm'/ , n. 1. See pink bollworm . 2. See corn earworm . [ 1840-50, Amer.; BOLL + WORM ]
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
TOMATO FRUITWORM — Date: circa 1891 : corn earworm
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
COTTON BOLLWORM — Date: 1870 : corn earworm
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
BOLLWORM — noun Date: 1847 : corn earworm ; also : any of several other moths that feed on cotton bolls as …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
TOMATO FRUITWORM — [tomato fruitworm] n (ca. 1891): corn earworm
Merriam-Webster English vocab
BOLLWORM — [boll.worm] n (1847): corn earworm; also: any of several other moths or their immature stages that feed on cotton bolls …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
OWLET MOTH — also called Miller, any of the more than 20,000 species in the cosmopolitan insect family Noctuidae (order Lepidoptera), having powdery, …
Britannica English vocabulary

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