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Cankerworm

noun
1.
Green caterpillar of a geometrid moth; pest of various fruit and shade trees.



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fall cankerworm
spring cankerworm


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"Cankerworm" Quotes from Famous Books



... print, if haply its author was some sage who is an enemy of mine, he will have put one thing for another, mingling a thousand lies with one truth, and amusing himself by relating transactions which have nothing to do with the sequence of a true history. O envy, root of all countless evils, and cankerworm of the virtues! All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, ...
— Don Quixote • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
... above making even a sauce for the senses, but a sauce of the highest relish; whilst Vices are the harpies that infect and foul the feast. The paths of Vice are sometimes strewed with roses, but then they are for ever infamous for many a thorn, for many a cankerworm: those of Virtue are strewed with roses purely, and those eternally ...
— Memoirs Of Fanny Hill - A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) • John Cleland


Words linked to "Cankerworm" :   family Geometridae, caterpillar, fall cankerworm, Geometridae


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