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caterpillar trees

caterpillar trees is the plural of caterpillar tree.

Meaning of caterpillar tree

Noun

caterpillar tree (plural caterpillar trees)

  1. 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.
  2. Catalpa bignonioides; the southern catalpa, 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.

Questions about caterpillar trees

What is caterpillar trees the plural of?
Caterpillar trees is the plural of caterpillar tree.

Words near caterpillar trees in the dictionary

  1. caterpillar searchers
  2. caterpillar skiing
  3. caterpillar track
  4. caterpillar tracks
  5. caterpillar tree
  6. caterpillar trees
  7. caterpillared
  8. caterpillaring
  9. caterpillarization
  10. caterpillarize
  11. caterpillarized

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