cotton bollworm

Questions about cotton bollworm

What does cotton bollworm mean?

cotton bollworm means "larva of a noctuid moth; highly destructive to especially corn and cotton and tomato crops".

What is another word for cotton bollworm?

Close synonyms include corn earworm, tomato fruitworm, tobacco budworm, vetchworm, Heliothis zia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cotton bollworm a common word?

cotton bollworm is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.