tomato fruitworm

Questions about tomato fruitworm

What does tomato fruitworm mean?

tomato fruitworm means "larva of a noctuid moth; highly destructive to especially corn and cotton and tomato crops".

What is another word for tomato fruitworm?

Close synonyms include corn earworm, cotton bollworm, tobacco budworm, vetchworm, Heliothis zia. 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 tomato fruitworm a common word?

tomato fruitworm 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.