資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Codlin \Cod"lin\, Codling \Cod"ling\, n. [Cf. AS. cod[ae]ppel a
quince.]
(a) An apple fit to stew or coddle.
(b) An immature apple.
A codling when 't is almost an apple. --Shak.
{Codling moth} (Zo["o]l.), a small moth ({Carpocapsa
Pomonella}), which in the larval state (known as the apple
worm) lives in apples, often doing great damage to the
crop.
資料來源 : WordNet®
Carpocapsa pomonella
n : a small gray moth whose larvae live in apples and English
walnuts [syn: {codling moth}, {codlin moth}]