cutworm

1. 1.

   North American moth whose larvae feed on young plant stems cutting them off at the ground

   Broadercaterpillar

   Narrowerarmy cutworm

   Part ofNoctuidae

Other forms of cutworm

plural

cutworms·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cutworm

What does cutworm mean?

cutworm means "North American moth whose larvae feed on young plant stems cutting them off at the ground".

How many syllables are in cutworm?

cutworm has 2 syllables: cut-worm. The stress falls on "cut". In IPA it is /ˈkʌˌtwɝm/.

Is cutworm a common word?

cutworm 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.