Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A larva that feeds on and is destructive to cabbage and other cruciferous plants, especially the green larva of the cabbage white butterfly.

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Examples

  • From the cabbage is engendered the cabbageworm, and from the leek the prasocuris or leekbane; this creature is also winged.

    The History of Animals 2002

  • They are laying eggs of imported cabbageworm caterpillars.

    CITIZEN-TIMES.com - News 2010

  • The major pest in the vegetable garden now is the cabbageworm.

    Local News from Tuscaloosa News 2009

  • This egg hatches into the velvety jade-green cabbageworm, a caterpillar that grows to over an inch long and lays flat on leaves, never looping.

    SFGate: Top News Stories Pam Peirce 2009

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