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Bollworm

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The larvae of any of various species of moth that are pests to cotton.

    "[…] which means that sowing at the usual rate of about two and one half kelehs of seed per feddan, we may sow at the same time from 4,000 to 5,000 living pink bollworms in the infested seeds; […]"

  2. 2
    any of various moth caterpillars that destroy cotton bolls wordnet

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From boll + worm.

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