manduca quinquemaculata

Questions about manduca quinquemaculata

What does manduca quinquemaculata mean?

manduca quinquemaculata means "large green white-striped hawkmoth larva that feeds on tomato and potato plants; similar to tobacco hornworm". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for manduca quinquemaculata?

Close synonyms include tomato hornworm, potato worm. 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 manduca quinquemaculata a common word?

manduca quinquemaculata 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.