English > caterpillar: 2 senses > noun 1, animal| Meaning | A wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth. |
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| Member of | Lepidoptera, order Lepidoptera | moths and butterflies |
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| Narrower | armyworm, army worm, Pseudaletia unipuncta | noctuid moth larvae that travel in multitudes destroying especially grass and grain |
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| beet armyworm, Spodoptera exigua | moth larva that eats foliage of beets and other vegetables |
| bollworm | Any of various moth caterpillars that destroy cotton bolls |
| cabbageworm, Pieris rapae | toxic green larva of a cabbage butterfly |
| cankerworm | green caterpillar of a geometrid moth |
| corn borer, Pyrausta nubilalis | larva of the European corn borer moth |
| cutworm | North American moth whose larvae feed on young plant stems cutting them off at the ground |
| fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda | larva of a migratory American noctuid moth |
| lappet caterpillar | larva of a lappet moth |
| measuring worm, inchworm, looper | small hairless caterpillar having legs on only its front and rear segments |
| potato tuberworm, Phthorimaea operculella | larva of potato moth |
| silkworm | The commercially bred hairless white caterpillar of the domestic silkworm moth which spins a cocoon that can be processed to yield silk fiber |
| silkworm, giant silkworm, wild wilkworm | larva of a saturniid moth |
| tent caterpillar | The larvae of moths that build and live in communal silken webs in orchard and shade trees |
| tobacco hornworm, tomato worm, Manduca sexta | large green white-striped hawkmoth larva that feeds on tobacco and related plants |
| tomato hornworm, potato worm, Manduca quinquemaculata | large green white-striped hawkmoth larva that feeds on tomato and potato plants |
| tussock caterpillar | larva of a tussock moth |
| webworm | Several gregarious moth larvae that spin webs over foliage on which they feed |
| woolly bear, woolly bear caterpillar | caterpillar of numerous moths characterized by a dense coat of woolly hairs |
| Broader | larva | The immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose |
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| Spanish | lagarta, oruga |
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| Catalan | eruga |
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