Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cotton_bollworm

1 sense of cotton bollworm

Sense 1
corn earworm, cotton bollworm, tomato fruitworm, tobacco budworm, vetchworm, Heliothis zia -- (larva of a noctuid moth; highly destructive to especially corn and cotton and tomato crops)
       => bollworm -- (any of various moth caterpillars that destroy cotton bolls)