How do you use Budworm in a sentence? See 2 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Budworm meaning
Any of various moth caterpillars.
Using Budworm
- The main meaning on this page is: Any of various moth caterpillars.
Context around Budworm
- Average sentence length in these examples: 34 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 2 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 2 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Budworm
- In this selection, "budworm" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 34 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, spruce, monitoring, rise and lab stand out and add context to how "budworm" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include compares the budworm monitoring program and numbers of budworm rise above. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "budworm" sits close to words such as aabc, aacr and aacsb, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with budworm
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
To do this, Maine opened the country’s only spruce budworm lab, where limbs from hundreds of areas across Maine are taken each winter and inspected for signs of overwintering budworms: cocoons. (32 words)
Eric Moise of the Canadian Forest Service compares the budworm monitoring program to a whack-a-mole game in which forests are treated with biological pesticides only when numbers of budworm rise above a certain threshold. (36 words)
Eric Moise of the Canadian Forest Service compares the budworm monitoring program to a whack-a-mole game in which forests are treated with biological pesticides only when numbers of budworm rise above a certain threshold. (36 words)
To do this, Maine opened the country’s only spruce budworm lab, where limbs from hundreds of areas across Maine are taken each winter and inspected for signs of overwintering budworms: cocoons. (32 words)
Example sentences (2)
Eric Moise of the Canadian Forest Service compares the budworm monitoring program to a whack-a-mole game in which forests are treated with biological pesticides only when numbers of budworm rise above a certain threshold.
To do this, Maine opened the country’s only spruce budworm lab, where limbs from hundreds of areas across Maine are taken each winter and inspected for signs of overwintering budworms: cocoons.