Hypertext Webster Gateway: "spanworm"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Spanworm \Span"worm`\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
The larva of any geometrid moth, as the cankeworm; a
geometer; a measuring worm.
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