caterpillar

Definition von caterpillar im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch: A vehicle with a caterpillar track; a crawler; The larva of a butterfly or moth
The bird just ate that green caterpillar.; {n} the general name of winged insects in their reptile or worm state; the varieties are numerous; a plant; {i} American company that manufactures agricultural and heavy industrial machinery; The larval stage of a butterfly or moth; A caterpillar is a tree in which there is some path p in the tree, and every other vertex of the tree is adjacent to some vertex of p; the second stage of a butterfly's life cycle Also called larva; They usually feed on leaves, fruit, and succulent vegetables, being often very destructive, Many of them are popularly called worms, as the cutworm, cankerworm, army worm, cotton worm, silkworm; a large vehicle that is driven by caterpillar tracks; frequently used for moving earth in construction and farm work; A plant of the genus Scorpiurus, with pods resembling caterpillars; – generally the larval, or immature (2nd) stage of moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera); The larval state of a butterfly or any lepidopterous insect; sometimes, but less commonly, the larval state of other insects, as the sawflies, which are also called false caterpillars; The true caterpillars have three pairs of true legs, and several pairs of abdominal fleshy legs (prolegs) armed with hooks; small creature , second stage in the butterfly's life cycle; {i} wormlike larva of a butterfly or moth; The LARVAL stage of butterflies and moths; a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth; A soft scratching post for a cat; a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth a large vehicle that is driven by caterpillar tracks; frequently used for moving earth in construction and farm work; Some are hairy, others naked; A caterpillar is a small, worm-like animal that feeds on plants and eventually develops into a butterfly or moth. Larva of a butterfly or moth. Caterpillars have a cylindrical body consisting of 13 segments, with three pairs of legs on the thorax and "prolegs" on the abdomen. The head has six eyes on each side, short antennae, and strong jaws. Though not true worms, many caterpillars are called worms (e.g., the inchworm, or looper, and the cutworm). Caterpillar-like larvae are also found in other insect groups (e.g., sawflies and scorpionflies)
caterpillar skiing: A skiing practice where the off-piste downhill skiers are transported to their starting point with a snowcat instead of a ski lift or a helicopter as in heli-skiing
caterpillar track: Continuous track in the form of a steel or rubber belt fitted instead of wheels to bulldozers, tanks and similar vehicles
caterpillar tracks: plural form of caterpillar track
caterpillar tree: Catalpa bignonioides; the Southern catalpa tree, a deciduous tree of family Bignoniaceae growing in Southeastern U.S., which is the host plant for the catawba worms, caterpillars that are popular fishing bait
caterpillar tree: A tree consisting of only a path (the spine or stalk of the tree) and vertices directly connected to (i.e. one edge away from) that path; a tree whose vertices with a degree of at least 3 are all surrounded by at most two vertices of degree two or greater
caterpillar tractor: tractor designed to travel over rough terrain
caterpillar tread: caterpillar tracks, treads on wheels for the purpose of gripping rough terrain (e.g. tractors, tanks, etc.)
caterpillar-tracked: having caterpillar treads or tracks on the wheels; "a caterpillar-tracked earthmover
eastern tent caterpillar: Malacosoma americanum, a univoltine social caterpillar inhabiting communal nests in the branches of trees
saddleback caterpillar: A caterpillar - the larva of a moth native to the eastern U.S., (Sibine stimulea) - which usually has a green and brown saddle-shaped mark on its back
caterpillars: plural of caterpillar
forest tent caterpillar: larvae of a gregarious North American moth that spins a carpet rather than a tent; serious defoliator of deciduous trees
lappet caterpillar: larva of a lappet moth
saddleback caterpillar: The brown and green larva of a moth (Sibine stimulea) of the southeast United States, having a brown saddle-shaped mark on its back and stinging spines that are mildly poisonous
tent caterpillar: Any of several destructive caterpillars of the family Lasiocampidae, especially of the genus Malacosoma, whose colonies construct silken tentlike webs in the branches of trees. Any moth larva of the genus Malacosoma(family Lasiocampidae). Tent caterpillars are often brightly coloured. Congregations of the eastern tent caterpillar (M. americanum) of eastern North America spin huge, tent-shaped communal nests in forked tree branches. Eggs the moth deposits on a tree in midsummer hatch in spring. The hatched caterpillars migrate to a tree crotch and construct a silken tent, which they leave each day throughout the summer to feed on the surrounding leaves. The forest tent caterpillar (M. disstria) is common in the southern U.S
tent caterpillar: the larvae of moths that build communal silken webs in orchard and shade trees
tent-caterpillar moth: moth whose larvae are tent caterpillars moth whose gregarious larvae spin carpets
tussock caterpillar: larva of a tussock moth

caterpillar

Silbentrennung

cat·er·pil·lar

Türkische aussprache

kätıpîlır

Aussprache

/ˈkatəˌpələr/ /ˈkætəˌpɪlɜr/

Etymologie

() From Middle English catirpel, catirpeller, probably from Old Northern French catepelose (Modern French chat + pileux, "hairy cat"), from Late Latin cattus + pilōsus.