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Manduca quinquemaculata

DEFINITIONS OF: Manduca quinquemaculata

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n large green white-striped hawkmoth larva that feeds on tomato and potato plants; similar to tobacco hornworm

Synonyms:
potato worm, tomato hornworm
Type of:
caterpillar
a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth

n moth whose larvae are tomato hornworms

Type of:
hawk moth, hawkmoth, hummingbird moth, sphingid, sphinx moth
any of various moths with long narrow forewings capable of powerful flight and hovering over flowers to feed
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