fall cankerworm

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   green or brown white-striped looper; larva of Alsophila pometaria

   Broadercankerworm

   Part ofAlsophila

Questions about fall cankerworm

What does fall cankerworm mean?

fall cankerworm means "green or brown white-striped looper; larva of Alsophila pometaria".

Is fall cankerworm a common word?

fall cankerworm 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.