manduca quinquemaculata

1. 1.

   large green white-striped hawkmoth larva that feeds on tomato and potato plants; similar to tobacco hornworm

   Synonymstomato hornwormpotato worm

   Broadercaterpillar
2. 2.

   moth whose larvae are tomato hornworms

   Broaderhawkmoth

   Part ofManduca

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.