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How to pronounce caterpillar in English?

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Synonyms cat
Type of tracked vehicle
Type Words
Type of larva
Has types beet armyworm, bollworm, cabbageworm, cankerworm, corn borer, cutworm, fall armyworm, giant silkworm, inchworm, lappet caterpillar, looper, manduca quinquemaculata, manduca sexta, measuring worm, woolly bear caterpillar, armyworm, woolly bear, army worm, phthorimaea operculella, pieris rapae, potato tuberworm, potato worm, pseudaletia unipuncta, pyrausta nubilalis, silkworm, spodoptera exigua, spodoptera frugiperda, tent caterpillar, tobacco hornworm, tomato hornworm, tomato worm, tussock caterpillar, webworm, wild wilkworm

Examples of caterpillar

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What are those green caterpillar thingies that are jumping on me from oak trees?
From the news-journalonline.com
Gregarious, with thick, caterpillar-like eyebrows, Wolfgang is from Long Island.
From the washingtonpost.com
What we do know is that the caterpillar population is getting bigger and bigger.
From the washingtonpost.com
Houdini is a monarch caterpillar who's being raised in a kindergarten classroom.
From the thenewstribune.com
Caterpillar is proud of the role we play in building the world's infrastructure.
From the jobview.monster.com
How caterpillar-damaged plants protect themselves by attracting parasitic wasps.
From the nature.com
Caterpillar Inc. is the world's largest construction and mining equipment maker.
From the freep.com
Caterpillar said it has more work to do before providing 2011 earnings guidance.
From the bloomberg.com
It is considered a pest species, as the caterpillar feeds on citrus tree leaves.
From the en.wikipedia.org
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  • 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
  • Caterpillars are the larval form of a member of the order Lepidoptera (the insect order comprising butterflies and moths). They are mostly herbivorous in food habit, with some species being insectivorous. Caterpillars are voracious feeders and many of them are considered pests in agriculture. ...
  • The Caterpillar (also known as the Hookah-Smoking Caterpillar) is a fictional character appearing in Lewis Carroll's book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
  • Caterpillar Inc. , also known as "CAT", designs, manufactures, markets and sells machinery and engines and sells financial products and insurance to customers via a worldwide dealer network. ...
  • Caterpillar is a best-of compilation by pop rock singer Elisa, mainly aimed at the international market. It's an international, revisited edition of Soundtrack '96-'06 and it has been published in Italy, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Holland, Luxembourg.
  • The Caterpillar ride is a vintage flat ride engineered by the inventor Hyla F. Maynes of North Tonawanda, New York who dubbed it the Caterpillar when it debuted in Coney Island, NY in 1925. ...
  • Caterpillar is the first of two simultaneous releases (along with Butterfly) by The Tokey Tones, released by Lil' Chief Records in 2003. The cover art for both albums was designed by noted Auckland artist Tanya Thompson, otherwise known as Misery. ...
  • "The Caterpillar" is the name of a 1984 single and song written by Robert Smith and Lol Tolhurst. The song is performed by The Cure and is from their album The Top. When played live, Robert Smith would jokingly introduce it as an old Japanese song.