What is "cabbageworm"

cabbage worm \cab"bage worm`\, cabbageworm \cab"bage*worm`\n. (Zo["o]l.), the larva of several species of moths and butterflies, which attacks cabbages. The most common is the toxic green larva of a white butterfly, the cabbage butterfly, ( Pieris rap[ae]). The cabbage cutworms, which eat off the stalks of young plants during the night, are the larv[ae] of several species of moths, of the genus Agrotis. See Cutworm. larva of a cabbage butterfly.

n : toxic green larva of a cabbage butterfly [syn: Pieris rapae]