Definition of "textor" []

• A genus of African weaver-birds, of the family Ploccidæ. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Hyphantria textor, the Fall-weaver, is found in May or June."
• "The Hyphantria textor now lays its smooth, spherical eggs in broad patches on the under side of the leaves of the apple, which the caterpillar will ravage in August; and its ally, the Halesidota caryæ, we have found ovipositing the last week in the month on the leaves of the butternut."
• "Assuming the textor wasn't the fatality in question."