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語源

palmer +‎ worm, because wandering about like a palmer.

名詞

palmerworm (複数形 palmerworms)

1. (archaic) Any small, terrestrial invertebrate, usually an agricultural pest and having many legs and a hairy body.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Joel 2:25:

     And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.

2. A gelechiid moth, Dichomeris ligulella, destructive to fruit trees.
   • 1922, Altus Lacy Quaintance, Edouard Horace Siegler, The More Important Apple Insects, page 58:

     If history repeats itself in the case of the palmerworm, fruit growers are not likely to encounter this insect in injurious numbers more than once in a lifetime, since in the past outbreaks have occurred only at intervals of […]