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spanworm

[ span-wurm ]

noun

Older Use.


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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of spanworm1

An Americanism first recorded in 1810–20; span 1 + worm
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As justification for the designation, the governor’s letter cites and details forest-damaging insects and diseases such as beech bark disease, the hemlock woolly adelgid, gypsy moth, emerald ash borer, sirex woodwasp and a variety of native tree defoliators, including the forest and eastern tent caterpillars, cherry scallop shell moth and the elm spanworm.

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On the same branch, I nearly overlook a charcoal gray spanworm camouflaged as a twig.

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Insects.—The rosebug, spanworm, great greenworm, and many other insects, infest grapevines, and do much injury.

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She had long been troubled with the spanworm on her trees.

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This coating seems to protect the caterpillar from the sparrow, with the result that Philadelphia's trees were soon nearly defoliated by this comparatively new pest, worse than the spanworm.

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