webworm
(noun) several gregarious moth larvae that spin webs over foliage on which they feed
Source: WordNet® 3.1
webworm (plural webworms)
Any of various caterpillars, of diverse moth families, that spin a web; the moth species of such a caterpillar.
Source: Wiktionary
Web"worm`, n. (Zoöl.)
Definition: Any one of various species of moths whose gregarious larvæ eat the leaves of trees, and construct a large web to which they retreat when not feeding.
Note: The most destructive webworms belong to the family Bombycidæ, as the fall webworm (Hyphantria textor), which feeds on various fruit and forest trees, and the common tent caterpillar, which feeds on various fruit trees (see Tent caterpillar, under Tent.) The grapevine webworm is the larva of a geometrid moth (see Vine inchworm, under Vine).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 May 2025
(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”
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