hornworm
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.53 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A caterpillar of a hawk moth that has a hornlike tail process.
Example Sentences
- "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."