Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CANK'ER-WORM
CANK'ER-WORM, n.
A worm, destructive to trees or plants. In America, this name is given to a worm that, in some years, destroys the leaves and fruit of apple-trees. This animal springs from an egg deposited by a miller, that issues from the ground.
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