budworm

English

Etymology

From bud +‎ worm.

Noun

budworm (plural budworms)

1. Any of various moth caterpillars.
   • 2007 January 21, The Associated Press, “Adirondacks Are His Life, All 101 Years and Counting”, in New York Times‎:

     After working briefly for a federal entomologist to control the spruce budworm — and spraying DDT from the air — he returned to the Adirondacks in 1946 to be district ranger at Cranberry Lake for 11 years.

Derived terms

• lesser budworm
• spruce budworm
• tobacco budworm
• western spruce budworm