HORNWORM

Meaning of HORNWORM in English

Pronunciation: - ˌ w ə rm

Function: noun

Date: 1676

: a hawk moth caterpillar having a hornlike tail process ― compare TOMATO HORNWORM

Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary. Merriam Webster - Энциклопедический словарь английского языка. 2012

HORNWORM — noun Date: 1676 a hawk moth caterpillar having a hornlike tail process
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
HORNWORM — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun : a larva of various hawkmoths (as a tobacco worm) having a hornlike tail process
Webster's New International English Dictionary
HORNWORM — /hawrn"werrm'/ , n. the larva of any of several hawk moths, having a hornlike process at the rear of the …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
HORNWORM — noun Date: 1676 : a hawk moth caterpillar having a hornlike tail process — compare tomato hornworm
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
HORNWORM — ■ noun N. Amer. a hawkmoth caterpillar with a spike on its tail, some kinds of which are pests of …
Concise Oxford English vocab
HORNWORM — [horn.worm] n (1676): a hawkmoth caterpillar having a hornlike tail process--compare tomato hornworm
Merriam-Webster English vocab
HORNWORM — зоол. гусеница с рогом (зоология) гусеница с рогом
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
HORNWORM — n зоол. гусеница с рогом
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
HORNWORM — (n) гусеница с рогом
English-Russian Lingvistica'98 dictionary
HORNWORM — n зоол. гусеница с рогом
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
HORNWORM — n зоол. гусеница с рогом
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
HORNWORM — 1) гусеница с рогом 2) бражник • - tomato hornworm
Новый Англо-Русский словарь по биологии
HORNWORM — 1) гусеница с рогом 2) бражник • - tomato hornworm
Новый Англо-Русский биологический словарь
HORNWORM — зоол. гусеница с рогом (зоология) гусеница с рогом
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
TOMATO HORNWORM — noun Date: 1921 a North American hawk moth ( Manduca quinquemaculata ) whose green larva is a hornworm feeding on …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
TOBACCO HORNWORM — noun Date: circa 1909 an American hawk moth ( Manduca sexta ) whose large usually green larva is a hornworm …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
TOMATO HORNWORM — noun : a caterpillar that is the larva of a hawkmoth ( Manduca quinquemaculata ), greatly resembles the tobacco hornworm, …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
TOBACCO HORNWORM — noun : a large green obliquely white-striped caterpillar with a hornlike process near the posterior end that is the larva …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
TOMATO HORNWORM — Date: 1921 : a North American hawk moth ( Manduca quinquemaculata ) whose green larva is a hornworm feeding on …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
TOBACCO HORNWORM — Date: circa 1909 : an American hawk moth ( Manduca sexta ) whose large usually green larva is a hornworm …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
TOMATO HORNWORM — [tomato hornworm] n (1921): a hawkmoth (Manduca quinquemaculata) whose larva is a hornworm feeding on plants of the nightshade family …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
TOBACCO HORNWORM — [tobacco hornworm] n (ca. 1909): a hawkmoth (Manduca sexta) whose large usu. green larva is a hornworm that feeds on …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
HAWK MOTH — or sphinx moth Any moth of the lepidopteran family Sphingidae. Found worldwide, these stout-bodied moths have long, narrow forewings and …
Английский словарь Британика
SWEET-POTATO SPHINX — noun see sweet-potato hornworm
Webster's New International English Dictionary
YELLOW SPOT — I. noun Etymology: translation of New Latin macula lutea : macula lutea II. noun Etymology: yellow (I) + spot 1. …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
TOMATO WORM — noun : tobacco hornworm — used especially when the larva is feeding on tomato
Webster's New International English Dictionary
TOBACCO WORM — noun : tobacco hornworm
Webster's New International English Dictionary
TOBACCO HAWKMOTH — noun : the adult moth of a tobacco hornworm
Webster's New International English Dictionary
PROTOPARCE — ˌprōd.əˈpärsē noun Usage: capitalized Etymology: New Latin, from prot- + -parce (perhaps from Latin parcus sparing, frugal) — more at …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
HAWK MOTH — also called Sphinx Moth, or Hummingbird Moth (family Sphingidae), any member of cosmopolitan insects (order Lepidoptera), named for their hovering, …
Britannica English vocabulary
BRACONID — any member of the family Braconidae (order Hymenoptera), a group of more than a thousand parasitic insects. Most species are …
Britannica English vocabulary
HAWK MOTH — or sphinx moth Any moth of the lepidopteran family Sphingidae. Found worldwide, these stout-bodied moths have long, narrow forewings and …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia

Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary

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