tomato hornworm

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

   Synonymspotato wormManduca quinquemaculata

   Broadercaterpillar

Questions about tomato hornworm

What does tomato hornworm mean?

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

What is another word for tomato hornworm?

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

tomato hornworm 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.