budworm

Etymology

From bud + worm.

budworm means any of various moth caterpillars. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 89 out of 100.

noun

Any of various moth caterpillars.“After working briefly for a federal entomologist to control the spruce budworm — and spraying DDT from the air — he returned to the Adirondacks in 1946 to be district ranger at Cranberry Lake for 11 years.”