What is any smooth, soft larva of a sawfly or moth which creeps like a mollusk; as, the pear slug; rose slug called?
slug — (Zoöl.) Any smooth, soft larva of a sawfly or moth which creeps like a mollusk; as, the pear slug; rose slug. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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