noun
1. larva of a noctuid moth; highly destructive to especially corn and cotton and tomato crops
• Syn: ↑corn earworm, ↑cotton bollworm, ↑tomato fruitworm, ↑tobacco budworm, ↑vetchworm
• Hypernyms: ↑bollworm
• Member Holonyms: ↑Noctuidae, ↑family Noctuidae
2. medium-sized moth whose larvae are corn earworms
• Syn: ↑heliothis moth
• Hypernyms: ↑noctuid moth, ↑noctuid, ↑owlet moth
• Member Holonyms: ↑Heliothis, ↑genus Heliothis
Useful english dictionary. 2012.