noun
larva of a noctuid moth; highly destructive to especially corn and cotton and tomato crops
• Syn: ↑corn earworm, ↑cotton bollworm, ↑tobacco budworm, ↑vetchworm, ↑Heliothis zia
• Hypernyms: ↑bollworm
• Member Holonyms: ↑Noctuidae, ↑family Noctuidae
Useful english dictionary. 2012.