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Tobacco Budworm
see synonyms of tobacco budwormNoun
1. corn earworm, cotton bollworm, heliothis zia, tobacco budworm, tomato fruitworm, vetchworm
larva of a noctuid moth; highly destructive to especially corn and cotton and tomato crops
WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.
Tobacco Budworm
see synonyms of tobacco budwormn.
The larva of a noctuid moth (Heliothis virescens) of the Americas that feeds on and damages the buds of certain crop plants and ornamental plants, especially tobacco, cotton, geraniums, and petunias.
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