Cabbageworm

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  cabbage worm \cab"bage worm`\, cabbageworm \cab"bage*worm`\n.
     (Zool.),
     the larva of several species of moths and butterflies, which
     attacks cabbages. The most common is the toxic green larva of
     a white butterfly, the {cabbage butterfly}, ({Pieris
     rap[ae]}). The cabbage cutworms, which eat off the stalks of


     young plants during the night, are the larv[ae] of several
     species of moths, of the genus {Agrotis}. See {Cutworm}.
     larva of a cabbage butterfly.
     [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  cabbageworm
       n : toxic green larva of a cabbage butterfly [syn: {Pieris rapae}]