Caterpillar is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CATERPILLAR in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the elongated wormlike larva of a butterfly or moth
• the larva of a butterfly or moth, which has a segmented body resembling a worm with three pairs of true legs and several pairs of leg-like appendages.
• (in general use) any insect larva resembling the larvae of caterpillars and moths, especially that of the sawfly.
• an articulated steel band passing round the wheels of a vehicle for travel on rough ground.
• a vehicle with caterpillar tracks.
• 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. Some are hairy, others naked. 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 plant of the genus Scorpiurus, with pods resembling caterpillars.
• a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth
• a large tracked vehicle that is propelled by two endless metal belts; frequently used for moving earth in construction and farm work
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the elongated wormlike larva of a butterfly or moth; any of various similar larvae

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How to use CATERPILLAR in a sentence

• It is a caterpillar with wings, and not yet a butterfly.
• Every night the caterpillar boy used to take off his skin and go out to dance, and one night the maidservant saw him and told her mistress.
• The insect appears in the caterpillar stage from April to July.
• What engines of toil they represented! The ten pairs of sweating, straining animals seemed almost like some giant caterpillar, harnessed to a burden on wheels.
• A caterpillar gave for a while great alarm, but did little injury.
• CHAPTER II GROWTH AND CHANGE The caterpillar differs markedly from the butterfly.
• Attention has already been drawn to the contrast in outward form between a butterfly and its caterpillar.
• Such a larva is evidently far less unlike its parent beetle than a caterpillar is unlike a butterfly.
• The caterpillar crawling over the leaf, or the fly-grub swimming through the water, may thus be regarded as a creature preparing for a change to the true conditions of its life.
• Alice thought she might as well wait, as she had nothing else to do, and perhaps after all the caterpillar might tell her something worth hearing.
• This is called the walnut caterpillar, and it has been very abundant in Connecticut this season.
• The butterfly, lying in the caterpillar neatly folded up like a flower in the bud, in due time comes forth.
• This sinful self-love is the caterpillar that destroyeth church and commonwealth.
• If the egg remain in the country where it is laid, and is kept at a pretty even temperature, and free from damp, the caterpillar emerges in a healthy condition.
• Although varying in size and details, all tanks have the common characteristic of being divided into three main compartments between the two side caterpillar frames.
• The caterpillar or wheel belts on the big guns consist of flat blocks, or shoes, wider than the tires of the wheels.
• The Cat-er-pil-lar looked at Al-ice, and she stared at it, but did not speak.
• Sometimes a twig snapped, or a young acorn fell, or a caterpillar let himself down by a long silken thread.
• Soon spreads the dismal shade Of Mystery over his head, And the caterpillar and fly Feed on the Mystery.
• Baby Caterpillar wanted to play, too, but could not run so fast as the happy little leaves, and she grew very tired and thought she would take a nap.
• The hole was entirely stopped up with the body of a pinkish-grey caterpillar, and Mr.
• A caterpillar, which the Indians name sustillo, and by which a paper is fabricated, very similar to that made in China, is bred in the pacae, a tree well known in Peru.
• But no one probably will dispute that the butterfly is higher than the caterpillar.
• Your host, O Maruts, shone forth when, O sages, you strip, like a caterpillar, the waving tree.
• Then Mother told him a story about a caterpillar and a butterfly.
• A caterpillar let itself down by a thread from the end of the bough under which I sat, in a direct line between me and the gateway.

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