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n. - Toxic green larva that feeds on a leafy garden plant (Brassica oleracea capitata) with a short stem and a dense globular head of usually green leaves that is used as a vegetable .

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  • From the cabbage is engendered the cabbageworm, and from the leek the prasocuris or leekbane; this creature is also winged.
  • They are laying eggs of imported cabbageworm caterpillars.
  • The major pest in the vegetable garden now is the cabbageworm.
  • This egg hatches into the velvety jade-green cabbageworm, a caterpillar that grows to over an inch long and lays flat on leaves, never looping.
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