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Definition: cabbage worm
cabbage worm
\cab"bage worm`\, cabbageworm
\cab"bage*worm`\n.
(Zo["o]l.),
the larva of several species of moths and butterflies, which
attacks cabbages. The most common is the toxic green larva of
a white butterfly, the
cabbage butterfly, (
Pieris rap[ae]
). The cabbage cutworms, which eat off the stalks of
young plants during the night, are the larv[ae] of several
species of moths, of the genus
Agrotis. See
Cutworm.
larva of a cabbage butterfly.
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