caseworm

Definitions


[], (Noun)

Definitions:
- More fully "paddy caseworm", "rice caseworm". The aquatic caterpillar of the pyralid moth Nymphula depunctalis, which is a major pest of rice in South and South-East Asia, feeding on leaves and forming a protective case from their fragments.


Phrases:

Origin:
mid 16th century (in an earlier sense). From case + worm




definition by Oxford Dictionaries