Cutworm: alternatives and connections

To rise, in a figurative sense; to proceed from an inferior to a superior degree, from mean to noble objects, from particulars to gene…

In the English corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets.

A genus of plants embracing several species and varieties differing much in appearance and qualities: such as the common cabbage (B. o…

Related to, or resembling, the cabbage, or plants of the Cabbage family.

An injury to the flesh of animals, or to plants, fruit, etc., with a blunt or heavy instrument, or by collision with some other body;…

The terminal bud of certain palm trees, used, like, cabbage, for food. See Cabbage tree, below.

An hemipterous insect (Murgantia histrionica) which injures the cabbage and other garden plants; -- called also calico bug and harlequ…

green caterpillar of a geometrid moth; pest of various fruit and shade trees

An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage, of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable.

Young cabbage, used as "greens"; esp. a kind cultivated for that purpose; colewort.

To preserve and season with salt in grains; to sprinkle with salt; to cure by salting; now, specifically, to salt slightly in brine or…

A field where corn is or has been growing; -- in England, a field of wheat, rye, barley, or oats; in America, a field of Indian corn.

Producing corn or grain; furnished with grains of corn.

The softer inorganic matter composing part of the surface of the globe, in distinction from the firm rock; soil of all kinds, includin…

An insect in the larval state; a caterpillar; a larva.

Having the form of a caterpillar; -- said of insect larvae.

A disease of cornstalks. See Corn fly, under Corn.

The fruit of certain grasses which furnish the chief food of man, as corn, wheat, rye, oats, etc., or the plants themselves; -- used c…