What does railroad worm mean?

railroad worm means "larvae bore into and feed on apples".

What is another word for railroad worm?

Close synonyms include apple maggot, Rhagoletis pomonella. 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 railroad worm a common word?

railroad worm 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.

railroad worm — meaning, pronunciation and definition

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
larvae bore into and feed on apples
Synonymsapple maggot Rhagoletis pomonella
Broaderfruit fly
Part ofRhagoletis

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What does railroad worm mean?: railroad worm means "larvae bore into and feed on apples".
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