Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The larva of the sphinx-moth Protoparce carolina, which feeds on the leaves of the growing tobacco-plant in the United States, and often does great damage.
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Examples
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The large, showy tobacco-worm and the tiny tobacco-thrips cause serious injury to the leaves.
Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation Mary Huston Gregory
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Its attacks are made upon it in the first stage of its existence, and are more fatal, because less easily prevented, than those of the tobacco-worm, that scourge, _par excellence_, of the tobacco crop.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings
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In the animal kingdom there are three creatures, and three only, to whom tobacco is not poisonous -- man, a goat found among the Andes, and the tobacco-worm.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings
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When the tobacco-worm moth visits this flower and sips the poisoned nectar, she will of course lay no more troublesome eggs.
Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition Frank Lincoln Stevens 1902
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The common green potato, or tobacco-worm, is said to become a moth of this kind; and the whole tribe of hawk-moths are now sometimes called humming-bird moths, from these same insects.
Rural Hours 1887
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The moth itself (Fig. 4) was formerly confounded with the tobacco-worm moth,
The $100 Prize Essay on the Cultivation of the Potato. Prize offered by W. T. Wylie and awarded to D. H. Compton. How to Cook the Potato, Furnished by Prof. Blot. D. A. Compton 1846
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The gray and black markings, however, of the wings differ perceptibly in the two species; and in the tobacco-worm moth there is always a more or less faint white spat, or a dot, near the centre of the front wing, which is never met with in the other species.
The $100 Prize Essay on the Cultivation of the Potato. Prize offered by W. T. Wylie and awarded to D. H. Compton. How to Cook the Potato, Furnished by Prof. Blot. D. A. Compton 1846
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Southern States, in Mexico and the West-Indies, the true potato-worm is unknown, and it is the tobacco-worm that the tobacco-grower has to fight.
The $100 Prize Essay on the Cultivation of the Potato. Prize offered by W. T. Wylie and awarded to D. H. Compton. How to Cook the Potato, Furnished by Prof. Blot. D. A. Compton 1846
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