| NOUN | animal | cankerworm | green caterpillar of a geometrid moth |
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| Meaning | green caterpillar of a geometrid moth; pest of various fruit and shade trees. | |
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| Member of | Geometridae, family Geometridae | measuring worms |
| Narrower | fall cankerworm | green or brown white-striped looper |
| spring cankerworm | variably colored looper | |
| Broader | caterpillar | A wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth |
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