Lexic.us

Definition of Army worm

1. Noun. Noctuid moth larvae that travel in multitudes destroying especially grass and grain.

Medical Definition of Army worm

1. A lepidopterous insect, which in the larval state often travels in great multitudes from field to field, destroying grass, grain, and other crops. The common army worm of the northern United States is Leucania unipuncta. The name is often applied to other related species, as the cotton worm. The larva of a small two-winged fly (Sciara), which marches in large companies, in regular order. See Cotton worm, under Cotton. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Army Worm

Literary usage of Army worm

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on some of the insects injurious to vegetation by Thaddeus William Harris (1880)
"IT having been thought desirable, in consequence of the increased ravages of the " army-worm " during the past year (1861), to give a description and ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1877)
"BIOLOGICAL NOTES ON THE army worm (LEUCANIA UNIPUNCTA Haw.). ... THE army worm is one of the most destructive insects to North American Agriculture. ..."

3. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1905)
"Delegate—Is that any relation to the army-worm? Professor Forbes—No, it is different from the army-worm although its resemblance is such that I have ..."

4. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1916)
"In a Farmers' Bulletin 2 giving a general discussion of the army worm, Mr. WR Walton, remarks that: " Most fortunately for the farmer, the army worm has ..."

5. The Sugar-beet in America by Franklin Stewart Harris (1919)
"This worm does its injury in early summer, whereas the beet army-worm is most ... This insect troubles more crops than the beet army-worm and is more widely ..."

6. Annual Report of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the by Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.), United States General Land Office, United States Dept. of the Interior (1877)
"Whether the army-worm made its appearance for the first time in Maine in 1861 cau ... The year 1875 was another army-worm year, and it abounded all over the ..."

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