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Irritatingly catchy tune
Answer for the clue "Irritatingly catchy tune ", 7 letters:
earworm
Alternative clues for the word earworm
- You can't get it out of your head
- More war-wounded, number hard to forget?
- A memorable lay one can't get out of head?
- Far-too-memorable song
- Song that's hard to get out of your head
- Hard-to-forget tune
- The 1975 hit "Can't Get It Out of My Head" would be an appropriate one
- Song that you hear all the time
Word definitions for earworm in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
An earworm is a piece of music that repeats compulsively within one's mind. Earworm may also refer to: Earworm Records , a British record label DJ Earworm , an American mashup artist "Earworm", an episode in Season 7 of SpongeBob SquarePants
Usage examples of earworm.
But different species can kill as many as two hundred kinds of pests, mostly caterpillars, like armyworms, cutworms, corn earworms, moths, leafworms and bollworms.
One is called the native budworm and the other, the corn earworm or the cotton bollworm - a good rowdy name for this pest.
A number of parasitic wasps will attack earworms, and green lacewings make excellent predators too.
The corn earworm moth, whose hungry larvae can decimate an otherwise healthy crop, has antennae tuned to these as well as other specific frequencies, with the result that when the female flies about on a clear moonlit night, she 'sees' - through her antennae - the whole field lit up, like an array of a myriad natural light bulbs.
The director of the county extension office must have rattled off two dozen possibilities, including the corn borer, corn earworm, corn weevil, corn beetle, corn-root aphid, and a very common parasitic fungus called corn smut.
Ethan had expected a worm: earthworm, corn earworm, cutworm, leech, caterpillar, trematode, one type of worm or another.