English Dictionary

palmerworm

名詞

古語

(archaic) Any small, terrestrial invertebrate, usually an agricultural pest and having many legs and a hairy body. / A gelechiid moth, Dichomeris ligulella, destructive to fruit trees.

日本語の意味

（古語）小型の陸生無脊椎動物。通常は農作物の害虫で、足が多く、体が毛深いもの。 / 果樹に被害を与えるゲレキイダモ蛾（Dichomeris ligulella）。

A single palmerworm can strip a tender sapling of leaves in an afternoon.

一匹の毛虫が午後のうちに若木の葉をむしり取ってしまうことがある。

意味（1）

(archaic) Any small, terrestrial invertebrate, usually an agricultural pest and having many legs and a hairy body.

And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.

意味（2）

A gelechiid moth, Dichomeris ligulella, destructive to fruit trees.

If history repeats itself in the case of the palmerworm, fruit growers are not likely to encounter this insect in injurious numbers more than once in a lifetime, since in the past outbreaks have occurred only at intervals of […]

palmerworms （ plural ）