webworm

3 definitions found

webworm - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Tent \Tent\, n. [OE. tente, F. tente, LL. tenta, fr. L. tendere,
     tentum, to stretch. See Tend to move, and cf. Tent a roll
     of lint.]
     1. A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas,
        or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, --
        used for sheltering persons from the weather, especially
        soldiers in camp.
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              Within his tent, large as is a barn.  --Chaucer.
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     2. (Her.) The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
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     Tent bed, a high-post bedstead curtained with a tentlike
        canopy.
  
     Tent caterpillar (Zool.), any one of several species of
        gregarious caterpillars which construct on trees large
        silken webs into which they retreat when at rest. Some of
        the species are very destructive to fruit trees. The most
        common American species is the larva of a bombycid moth
        (Clisiocampa Americana). Called also lackery  caterpillar
        , and webworm.
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  Webworm \Web"worm`\, n. (Zool.)
     Any one of various species of moths whose gregarious larvae
     eat the leaves of trees, and construct a large web to which
     they retreat when not feeding.
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     Note: The most destructive webworms belong to the family
           Bombycidae, as the fall webworm (Hyphantria textor
           ), which feeds on various fruit and forest
           trees, and the common tent caterpillar, which feeds on
           various fruit trees (see Tent caterpillar, under
           Tent.) The grapevine webworm is the larva of a
           geometrid moth (see Vine inchworm, under Vine).
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webworm - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  webworm
      n 1: several gregarious moth larvae that spin webs over foliage
           on which they feed