"hornworm" meaning in English

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      "word": "tobacco hornworm"
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      "word": "Manduca sexta"
    },
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      "word": "tomato hornworm"
    },
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "Manduca quinquemaculata"
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  "etymology_text": "From horn + worm.",
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      "form": "hornworms",
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      ]
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "_dis": "54 46",
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Sphinx moths",
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      "glosses": [
        "A caterpillar of a hawk moth that has a hornlike tail process."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "caterpillar",
          "caterpillar"
        ],
        [
          "hawk moth",
          "hawk moth"
        ],
        [
          "hornlike",
          "hornlike"
        ],
        [
          "process",
          "process"
        ]
      ],
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        {
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "caterpillar",
          "word": "kiitäjän toukka"
        }
      ]
    },
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        {
          "ref": "2007 March 27, John Schwartz, “In the Lab: Robots That Slink and Squirm”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "The project, part of a wave of interest in life-imitating robotics, is a collaboration of seven Tufts faculty members from five departments in the schools of engineering and arts and sciences. Dr. Trimmer comes from the field of neurobiology, where he has been studying the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta, since 1990.",
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        "Some moths in the genus Manduca of the hawk moth family Sphingidae."
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          "Manduca",
          "Manduca#Translingual"
        ],
        [
          "hawk moth",
          "hawk moth"
        ],
        [
          "Sphingidae",
          "Sphingidae#Translingual"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hornworm"
}

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    {
      "word": "tobacco hornworm"
    },
    {
      "word": "Manduca sexta"
    },
    {
      "word": "tomato hornworm"
    },
    {
      "word": "Manduca quinquemaculata"
    }
  ],
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  "etymology_text": "From horn + worm.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hornworms",
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      ]
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  "pos": "noun",
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        "A caterpillar of a hawk moth that has a hornlike tail process."
      ],
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          "text": "The project, part of a wave of interest in life-imitating robotics, is a collaboration of seven Tufts faculty members from five departments in the schools of engineering and arts and sciences. Dr. Trimmer comes from the field of neurobiology, where he has been studying the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta, since 1990.",
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      ],
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        "Some moths in the genus Manduca of the hawk moth family Sphingidae."
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          "hawk moth",
          "hawk moth"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "caterpillar",
      "word": "kiitäjän toukka"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hornworm"
}