Hornworm vs Hornwork - What's the difference?
hornworm | hornwork |
A species of moth,
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=March 27, author=John Schwartz, title=In the Lab: Robots That Slink and Squirm, work=New York Times
, passage=The project, part of a wave of interest in life-imitating robotics, is a collaboration of seven Tufts faculty members from five departments in the schools of engineering and arts and sciences. Dr. Trimmer comes from the field of neurobiology, where he has been studying the tobacco hornworm , Manduca sexta, since 1990. }} A type of fortification consisting of a pair of demi-bastions with a curtain wall connecting them and with two long sides directed upon the faces of the bastions, or ravelins of the inner fortifications, so as to be defended by them.
As nouns the difference between hornworm and hornwork
is that hornworm is a species of moth, while hornwork is a type of fortification consisting of a pair of demi-bastions with a curtain wall connecting them and with two long sides directed upon the faces of the bastions, or ravelins of the inner fortifications, so as to be defended by them.hornworm
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