Cabbage Worm - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: cabbage wormcabbage worm
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 rapaelig The cabbage cutworms which eat off the stalks of young plants during the night are the larvaelig of several species of moths of the genus Agrotis See Cutworm larva of a cabbage butterfly...
cabbage butterfly
a white butterfly Pieris rapaelig of both Europe and America and the allied Pieris oleracea a native American species which in the larval state devours the leaves of the cabbage and the turnip See also Cabbage worm below...
Cabbage
An esculent vegetable of many varieties derived from the wild Brassica oleracea of Europe The common cabbage has a compact head of leaves The cauliflower Brussels sprouts etc are sometimes classed as cabbages...
Worm
Worm, according to the Webster's New World Dictionary (1962 edition), 'worm' means 'any of many long, slender, soft-bodied creeping animals, some segmented, that live by burrowing underground or as parasites, as the earthworm, tapeworm'. According to the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 'worm' means 'a slender, creeping, naked, limbless animal usually brown or reddish with a soft body divided into a series of segments; an earthworm', State (Delhi Administration) v. Puran Mal, AIR 1985 SC 741: (1985) 2 SCC 589: (1985) 3 SCR 464....
Hair worm
A nematoid worm of the genus Gordius resembling a hair See Gordius...
Palmetto
A name given to palms of several genera and species growing in the West Indies and the Southern United States In the United States the name is applied especially to the Chamaeligrops Palmetto or Sabal Palmetto the cabbage tree of Florida and the Carolinas See Cabbage tree under Cabbage...
Vegetable
Vegetable, 'Vegetables' understood in common parlance are not products of manufacture unless we say that agriculture is an industry for certain purposes and vegetables are products of that industry, Saraswati Sugar Mills v. Haryana State Board, (1992) 1 SCC 418: AIR 1992 SC 224.The word 'vegetables' does not include Pan (betel leaves). Therefore betel leaves are taxable under the provisions of the Act, Ram Bux Chaturbhuj v. State of Rajasthan, AIR 1963 SC 351 (352). [Rajasthan Sales Tax Act, 1954 (29 of 1954), s. 4]Vegetable, cannot be given the comprehensive meaning as it bears in natural history, and it must be construed in popular sense to denote such classes of vegetable matter which are grown in kitchen gardens or in a farm and are used for table, State of West Bengal v. Washi Ahmed, AIR 1977 SC 1638: (1977) 2 SCC 246: 1977 SCC (Tax) 278: (1977) 3 SCR 149: (1977) 2 SCJ 222: 39 STC 378: (1977) 1 SCWR 604: (1977) UJ (SC) 268: (1977) Tax LR 2042: (1977) UPTC 296; Ramavtar v. Assistan...
Caterpillar
The larval state of a butterfly or any lepidopterous insect sometimes but less commonly the larval state of other insects as the sawflies which are also called false caterpillars The true caterpillars have three pairs of true legs and several pairs of abdominal fleshy legs prolegs armed with hooks Some are hairy others naked They usually feed on leaves fruit and succulent vegetables being often very destructive Many of them are popularly called worms as the cutworm cankerworm army worm cotton worm silkworm...
Brassicaceous
Related to or resembling the cabbage or plants of the Cabbage family...
Pierid
Any butterfly of the genus Pieris and related genera See Cabbage butterfly under Cabbage...
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