Definition of Palmerworms

1. palmerworm [n] - See also: palmerworm

Lexicographical Neighbors of Palmerworms

palmatipartite
palmatisect
palmatisected
palmature
palmchat
palmchats
palmcorder
palmcorders
palmcrist
palmcrists
palmed
palmellin
palmer
palmers
palmerworm
palmerworms (current term)
palmette
palmettes
palmetto
palmetto bug
palmetto bugs
palmettoes
palmettos
palmful
palmfuls
palmic
palmic acid
palmidactyles
palmie
palmier

Literary usage of Palmerworms

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

1. The Fortunes of Nigel by Walter Scott (1905)
"If we admit such palmerworms and caterpillars to the Sanctuary, we shall soon have the whole nation." " We are not entitled to inquire," said Duke ..."

2. Woodstock: Or, The Cavalier by Walter Scott (1894)
"To the town of Worcester," said the soldier, " where you were crushed like vermin and palmerworms,1 as you are." " You may say your pleasure," replied the ..."

3. The Universal Masonic Library: A Republication in Thirty Volumes of All the by George Oliver (1855)
"... caterpillars, and palmerworms, which filled their houses, and " covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened: and they did eat ..."

4. The Works of the Learned and Reverend John Scott, D.D., Sometime Rector of by John Scott (1826)
"And the same may l>e said of ants, and moles, and palmerworms, and innumerable other animals, which, though they have no reason of their own, ..."

5. The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1881)
"Whatever form they take, they are always potent, even when God's host is made up of grasshoppers, cankerworms, and palmerworms, as in the Book of Joel, ..."

6. The Bible and Its Storyby Charles Francis Horne, Julius August Brewer by Charles Francis Horne, Julius August Brewer (1910)
"... which has reduced the land almost to starvation. What one visitation had spared, the next had taken. To "palmerworms" had succeeded locusts, ..."

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