palmerworm

English

Etymology

palmer +‎ worm, because wandering about like a palmer.

Noun

palmerworm (plural palmerworms)

  1. A gelechiid moth, Dichomeris ligulella, destructive to certain trees.
    • 1611, King James Version, Joel 2:25:
      And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.

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References

On etymology, see Ernest Adams, ""On the Names of Caterpillers, Snails, and Slugs," Transactions of the Philological Society, 89–112, 95 (1860).

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