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y eating, and often entirely destroying, the foliage. Other similar larvæ are also called cankerworms.

s, being often very destructive, Many of them are popularly called worms, as the cutworm, cankerworm, army worm, cotton worm, silkworm.

To deprive of leaves. [R.] The cankerworms that annually that disleaved the elms. Lowell.

larva of any geometrid moth, which drops from trees by means of a thread of silk, as the cankerworm.

looping manner, as if measuring. Many of the species are injurious to agriculture, as the cankerworms.

.), pyromorphite. -- Green linnet (Zoöl.), the greenfinch. -- Green looper (Zoöl.), the cankerworm. -- Green marble (Min.), serpentine. -- Green mineral, a carbonate of copper, used as a pigment. See Greengill. -- Green monkey (Zoöl.) a West African long-tailed monkey (Cercopithecus callitrichus), very commonly ta…

Any moth of the family Phalænidæ, of which the cankerworms are examples; a geometrid.

ich constructs a globular nest of mud and sand in which it deposits insect larvæ, such as cankerworms, as food for its young.