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(archaic) Any small, terrestrial invertebrate, usually an agricultural pest and having many legs and a hairy body..
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.
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[…]
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Palmerworm means (archaic) Any small, terrestrial invertebrate, usually an agricultural pest and having many legs and a hairy body..
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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.
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