- tobacco budworm
- noun Date: 1918 an American noctuid moth (Heliothis virescens syn. Helicoverpa virescens) whose striped and variably colored larva feeds on buds and young leaves especially of tobacco and cotton
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
tobacco budworm
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