Definition of Tobacco Hornworm in English :

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Tobacco Hornworm meaning in English

Meaning of Tobacco Hornworm in English

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Tobacco Hornworm pronunciation in English

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Tobacco Hornworm

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Noun

1. manduca sexta, tobacco hornworm, tomato worm

large green white-striped hawkmoth larva that feeds on tobacco and related plants; similar to tomato hornworm

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Tobacco Hornworm

see synonyms of tobacco hornworm
a hawk moth (Manduca sexta) whose large, green caterpillar feeds on the leaves of tobacco plants

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Tobacco Hornworm

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n.
The green caterpillar of a hawkmoth (Manduca sexta) of the southern United States, Central and South America, and the West Indies that feeds on the leaves of solanaceous plants, especially tobacco and tomato.

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