Found 2 items, similar to cabbageworm.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: cabbageworm cabbageworm n : toxic green larva of a cabbage butterfly [syn: Pieris rapae]
English → English (gcide) Definition: cabbageworm 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. [WordNet 1.5]