spring cankerworm

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   variably colored looper; larva of Paleacrita vernata

   Broadercankerworm

   Part ofPaleacrita

Questions about spring cankerworm

What does spring cankerworm mean?

spring cankerworm means "variably colored looper; larva of Paleacrita vernata".

Is spring cankerworm a common word?

spring 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.