CATERPILLAR meaning: Larval stage of a butterfly

We found 40 dictionaries that define the word Caterpillar:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

Caterpillar, caterpillar: Merriam-Webster
caterpillar: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
Caterpillar, caterpillar: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
caterpillar: Collins English Dictionary
Caterpillar, caterpillar: Vocabulary.com
Caterpillar, caterpillar: Wordnik
caterpillar: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
caterpillar: Wiktionary
caterpillar: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
caterpillar: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
caterpillar: Infoplease Dictionary
caterpillar: Dictionary.com
caterpillar: Online Etymology Dictionary
caterpillar: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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
Caterpillar: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
caterpillar: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
caterpillar: Rhymezone
caterpillar: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
caterpillar: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
caterpillar: FreeDictionary.org
caterpillar: Mnemonic Dictionary
Caterpillar: TheFreeDictionary.com
caterpillar: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

caterpillar: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

caterpillar: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)

caterpillar (n.): Cats
Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
caterpillar: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)

Caterpillar: Easton Bible
Caterpillar: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (5 matching dictionaries)

caterpillar: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary
Caterpillar: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
Caterpillar: HYPP Zoology
Biological Control (No longer online)
Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

caterpillar, caterpillar, caterpillar: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
Caterpillar, the caterpillar: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (caterpillar)

▸ 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.

Opposite:

butterfly

Types:

monarch, tobacco hornworm, moth, butterfly, luna, polyphemus, promethea, cecrop, more...

Phrases:

caterpillar tractor, tent caterpillar, caterpillar tractors, caterpillar tracks, hairy caterpillar, more...

Adjectives:

green, hairy, little, large, very, small, grown, black, young, mature, tiny

Colors:

green, yellow, black, brown, white, more...

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