plum gouger
English
Noun
plum gouger (plural plum gougers)
- A weevil or curculio (Coccotorus scutellaris or Coccotorus prunicida) which destroys plums by making round holes in the pulp in which to lay its eggs. The larva bores into the stone and eats the kernel.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for plum gouger in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)