caterpillar
IPA: kˈætʌpɪɫɝ
noun
- The larva of a butterfly or moth; leafworm.
- A vehicle with a caterpillar track; a crawler.
- (mathematics) A set of subtrees of a tree.
- A rapacious person preying upon the community. (Webster's 2nd Int.)
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Examples of "caterpillar" in Sentences
- The caterpillar larvae eat detritus.
- The caterpillar hatches from the egg.
- The emerging caterpillars feed on the leaves.
- The Caterpillar lives in the curled up leaves.
- The caterpillar overwinters in the soil as a pupa.
- 'Inchworms' are the caterpillars of geometer moths.
- The caterpillars hatch from the end of June onwards.
- The caterpillar bores into the stem of the host plant.
- The caterpillars hatch by chewing their way out of the eggs.
- The eggs then hatch into larvae which consume the insides of the caterpillars.