Usually means: Insect pest damaging corn crops.
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  1. corn borer: Merriam-Webster
  2. corn borer: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. corn borer: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. corn borer: Collins English Dictionary
  5. corn borer: Vocabulary.com
  6. corn borer: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  7. corn borer: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. corn borer: Dictionary.com
  9. Corn borer: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. corn borer: Rhymezone
  11. corn borer: FreeDictionary.org
  12. corn borer: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. corn borer: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. corn borer: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from WordNet (corn borer)

noun:  native to Europe; in America the larvae bore into the stem and crown of corn and other plants
noun:  larva of the European corn borer moth; a serious pest of maize

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