Usually means: Larval stage of a butterfly.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. Caterpillar, caterpillar: Merriam-Webster
  2. caterpillar: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Caterpillar, caterpillar: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. caterpillar: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Caterpillar, caterpillar: Vocabulary.com
  6. Caterpillar, caterpillar: Wordnik
  7. caterpillar: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. caterpillar: Wiktionary
  9. caterpillar: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. caterpillar: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. caterpillar: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. caterpillar: Dictionary.com
  13. caterpillar: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. caterpillar: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Caterpillar (Elisa album), Caterpillar (Mina album), Caterpillar (boot brand), Caterpillar (company), Caterpillar (disambiguation), Caterpillar (ride), Caterpillar (song), Caterpillar, The Caterpillar (song): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Caterpillar: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. caterpillar: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. caterpillar: Rhymezone
  19. caterpillar: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. caterpillar: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. caterpillar: FreeDictionary.org
  22. caterpillar: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Caterpillar: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. caterpillar: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. caterpillar: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. caterpillar: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. caterpillar (n.): Cats
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. caterpillar: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Caterpillar: Easton Bible
  2. Caterpillar: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. caterpillar: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary
  2. Caterpillar: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. Caterpillar: HYPP Zoology
  4. Biological Control (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. caterpillar, caterpillar, caterpillar: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Caterpillar, the caterpillar: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See caterpillaring as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The larva of a butterfly or moth; leafworm.
noun:  A vehicle with a caterpillar track; a crawler.
noun:  (mathematics) A set of subtrees of a tree.
noun:  (obsolete) A rapacious, extortionate person preying upon the community.
verb:  (intransitive) To move along slowly, drawing one's body up, in the manner of a caterpillar.

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