How to use caterpillar in a sentence

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• The caterpillars of the rice moth feed on dry plantstuffs such as seeds.From the entry plantstuff
• In addition to being the obligate food source for monarch caterpillars, milkweeds also provide abundant nectar for the adult butterflies.From the entry obligate
• Her wings were too small to carry the new pet caterpillar home for her mother.2024 July 21, Sean Presant, edited by Michael Scanlon, Tab Time: Lenny and the Truck-Driving Dinosaurs, Kids at Play. From the entry oopsortunity
• Like brightly striped caterpillars and spiders, the flamboyant cuttlefish is warning potential predators of its toxic nature.2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 175. From the entry flamboyant cuttlefish
• This summer I acquired two Polyphemus caterpillars at Mothapalooza, a mothing conference.2017 October 26, Edie Parnum, “Polyphemus Moths Live Near Me”, in Backyards for Nature, Valley Forge Audubon Society. From the entry Polyphemus caterpillar
• The apartment's row of four blippy rooms reminded Sara of a toy caterpillar.2016, Dylan Hicks, Amateurs, Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press, →ISBN, page 30. From the entry nonamorous
• Polyphemus caterpillars can eat the leaves of many different trees and shrubs.2006, “Antheraea polyphemus – Polyphemus Moth”, in Prairie Haven. From the entry Polyphemus caterpillar
• Many of these caterpillars have special glands that produce secretions which are very attractive to these ants.1999, Steven O. Shattuck, Australian Ants: Their Biology and Identification, volume 3, CSIRO Publishing, page 72. From the entry produce
• Nettlers are passive stingers.They include stinging plants, some are appropriately called nettles, jellyfish and some caterpillars.1992, F. Tom Turpin, The Insect Appreciation Digest, page 70. From the entry nettler
• And caterpillars and chrysalisses and things, and lots of nice drawings, coloured with felt pens.1979, Sheila Lavelle, My Best Fiend, London: Hamish Hamilton, →ISBN, page 165. From the entry chrysalis
• A government caterpillar is chrysalising: what kind of butterfly flies away remains a matter for conjecture.1965, British Communications and Electronics, page 247. From the entry chrysalis
• Perhaps a caterpillar is observed in the yard gluttonly munching on the wife’s prized petunias.1955 July, Norman E. Flitters, “Bugs in His Lenses!”, in Arthur E. Gavin, editor, American Cinematographer: The Magazine of Motion Picture…. From the entry gluttonly
• It is operated by the driver of the caterpillar tractor which hauls it.1943 September and October, “Railway Construction and Operation at War Department Depots”, in Railway Magazine, page 262. From the entry scraper
• The non-phytophagous minority of the caterpillars exemplifies three somewhat distinct food habits,- entomophagous, homophonous and scavengerous.1939, Walter Valentine Balduf, The bionomics of entomophagous insects (part 2, page 1). From the entry scavengerous
• The looper caterpillar has been very abundant on beech and mapletrees.1902, Report of the State Entomologist on Injurious and Other Insects of the State of New York, pages 144, 863, and 897. From the entry mapletree
• A caterpillar of a pick-me can spread its wings, shake off the patriarchy, and morph into a beautiful girl’s girl butterfly.2024 April 12, Stephanie McNeal, “Are You Woman Enough to Be a Girl’s Girl?”, in Glamour, archived from the original on 15 Apr 2024. From the entry girl's girl
• Both species’ caterpillars live on grasses found on field margins.2015 November 24, Patrick Barkham, “Pesticide may be reason butterfly numbers are falling in UK, says study”, in The Guardian. From the entry Essex skipper
• Caterpillar (CAT)and Boston Consulting Group said their top executives would go but the companies are monitoring the situation closely.2014 May 2, Mark Thompson and Aaron Smith, “U.S. presses CEOs to skip Russia’s Davos”, in CNN Business. From the entry cat
• I like caterpillar rolls, but maybe it’s not so bad that I can’t find them in a Tokyo sushiya.2009 May 24, Eduardo Porter, “An All-American Sauce”, in New York Times. From the entry caterpillar roll
• Thereafter, the caterpillar achieved a sort of posthumous apotheosis.1974, Per Lord Hailsham, Smedleys Ltd v Breed [1974]2 All ER 21(HL) at 24. From the entry apotheosis
• It rolled round the bend, like a black-behinded caterpillar that looks over its shoulder as it goes, and vanished.1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 23”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers…. From the entry behinded
• The caterpillars may be trapped in their tents in early morning or late afternoon and extinguished with a swabful of kerosene.1902 June 1, “Spraying”, in Woodland & Roadside, volume 1, number 2, page 3. From the entry swabful
• Among the pines grew rowans hung with scarlet berries, and bilberry bushes whose leaves would be fair game for white moth caterpillars in spring.2020 February 25, Christopher de Bellaigue, “The end of farming?”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 06 Jan 2026. From the entry bilberry
• These leaves are the moth’s only source of food, and if left unchecked, the caterpillars can completely defoliate a single mighty tree.2020, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments, Minneapolis: Milkweed…. From the entry defoliate
• Maybe I should dig out my 8' long rainbow caterpillar stuffie from Toys 'R Us, and put it on my bed to cuddle with?2019 February 22, @PrincesGoofball, Twitter. From the entry ABDLer
• Late in the infection of the so-called “treetop disease” this gene gets activated when caterpillars are moved to the upper plant foliage where they die.2016, Genetics and Molecular Biology of Entomopathogenic Fungi, page 460. From the entry treetop disease
• The cabbage head caterpillar Crocidolomia pavonana (Fabricius) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) is an increasingly devastating pest on white cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) in Uganda.2013, Issues in Life Sciences, page 32. From the entry cabbage head
• Dangling head-down from a piece of siding on the house, the caterpillar shed its skin like a fleshy lady ooching out of her panty hose.2002, Stephanie Mills, “The Others”, in Epicurean Simplicity, Washington, D.C.: Shearwater Books, Island Press, →ISBN, page 78. From the entry ooch
• However, the cabbagehead caterpillar (Crocidolomia binotalis Zeller) which is the secondary pest of cabbage, may become a serious problem, particularly during the dry season.1992, N. S. Talekar, Diamondback moth and other crucifer pests, page 81. From the entry cabbagehead
• Neutrals — scavengers that are not mimetic: mites; collembolens; staphylinid, trichopterygid, chrysomelid, and scarabæid beetles; phorid and syrphid flies; and caterpillars of certain microlepidopterans.1942, Edward Oliver Essig, College Entomology, page 672. From the entry strigilator
• “Caterpillars change into moths,” was followed by “puppies change into dogs, and kittens change into cats, and baby hippopotamusses change into big hippopotamusses.”1923, Arnold Gesell, Julia Wade Abbot, The Kindergarten and Health, number 14, Washington, D. C.: Department of the Interior Bureau of…. From the entry hippopotamusses
• Haynes suggested that Philip's behaviour savoured of unpatriotism, and that the one thing needful was the immediate appointment of a caterpillar controller.1917, Various, Punch, July 18, 1917. From the entry unpatriotism
• As this caterpillar is very readily dislodged, jarring the tree and killing the insect on the ground is a convenient combatative measure.1910, Edith M. Patch, O. A. Johannsen, Apple Tree Insects of Maine, page 25. From the entry combatative
• A US study published earlier this year found that dust emitted when seeds treated with neonicotinoids are planted causes sub-lethal effects in caterpillars of the monarch butterfly.2015 November 24, Patrick Barkham, “Pesticide may be reason butterfly numbers are falling in UK, says study”, in The Guardian. From the entry sublethal
• Two hours later I stumbled indoors bathed in sweat, throbbing from caterpillar stings, and covered so thickly with red clay that I could have passed for a Romertopf cooker.2001, Fine Gardening, numbers 77-88, page 90. From the entry Romertopf
• The bulldozer is a caterpillar tractor on the front of which is mounted a heavy steel blade which can be moved up and down by hydraulic gear.1943 September and October, “Railway Construction and Operation at War Department Depots”, in Railway Magazine, page 262. From the entry bulldozer

Meaning of caterpillar

1. noun The larva of a butterfly or moth; leafworm.
2. noun A vehicle with a caterpillar track; a crawler.
3. noun A set of subtrees of a tree.

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How do you use caterpillar in a sentence?

Caterpillar is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The bird just ate that green caterpillar.”

What is a short sentence with caterpillar?

“The bird just ate that green caterpillar.”

What does caterpillar mean?

Caterpillar means the larva of a butterfly or moth; leafworm.