Caterpillar

English

Noun

Caterpillar (plural Caterpillars)

1. The larva of a butterfly or moth.
2. A vehicle with a caterpillar track; a crawler.

Adjectives for Caterpillar

bristly; evil-horned; fuzzy; harmless; inching; plushy; sojourning; whither-bent.

Verbs for Caterpillar

combat —s; cultivate —s; examine—; exterminate—; infest with —s; observe—; spray —s; teem with —s; — abound ; — attack; — bore into; — collect; —crawls; —despoils; —devours; —emerges; —gather; —hibernates; — invade; —s molt; — ravage; —secretes; —spins a cocoon.

Derived terms

• caterpillar track
• tent caterpillar

Thesaurus

millipede, mite, nymph, nympha, pupa, scorpion, spider, tarantula, tick, wiggler, wriggler, arachnid, arthropod, aurelia, beetle, bug, centipede, chilopod, chrysalis, cocoon, daddy longlegs, diplopod, fly, grub, harvestman, hexapod, insect, larva, maggot, millepede,

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈkætəpɪlə(ɹ)/

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Translations

Noun

larva of a butterfly

Albanian: krimb (sq) Arabic: دودة الفراشة (ar) (duudat al-faraasha) f. Armenian: թրթրուկ (hy) Azeri: tırtıl (az) Basque: har (eu), beldar (eu) Belarusian: вусень (be) (vúsen') m. Bulgarian: гъсеница (bg) (găsénica) f. Catalan: eruga (ca) f. Cebuano: til-as (ceb) Chichewa: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: 毛毛蟲 (cmn), 毛毛虫 (cmn) (máomáochóng), 毛蟲 (cmn), 毛虫 (cmn) (máochóng), Czech: housenka (cs) f. Danish: larve (da) c., kålorm (da) c. Dutch: rups (nl) f. Esperanto: raŭpo (eo) Estonian: tõuk Finnish: perhostoukka (fi) French: chenille (fr) f. Georgian: მუხლუხი (ka) (muxluxi) German: Raupe (de) f. Greek: κάμπια (el) (kámpia) f. Hebrew: זַחַל (he) (zakhal) m. Hindi: इल्ली (hi) (illī) Hungarian: hernyó (hu) Icelandic: lirfa (is) Ido: raupo (io) Italian: bruco (it) m.

Japanese: 毛虫 (ja) (けむし, kemushi), 芋虫 (ja) (いもむし, imomushi) Jèrriais: carpéleuse f. Korean: 모충 (ko) (mochung) Latin: eruca (la) f. Lojban: ciftoldi (jbo) Macedonian: гасеница (mk) (gasénica) f. Malay: beluncas (ms) Maltese: dudu tal-ħarir m. Navajo: wódítłʼooí, chʼosh ditłʼooí Norwegian: larve (no) m. Persian: كرم‌ صدپا (fa) Polish: gąsienica (pl) f. Portuguese: lagarta (pt) f. Romanian: omidă (ro) f., şenilă (ro) f. Russian: гусеница (ru) (gúsenica) f. Sardinian: ruga (sc) f. Scottish Gaelic: burras (gd) m. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: гусеница (sh) f., (Ijekavian) гу̏сјеница (sh) f. Roman: gusenica (sh) f., (Ekavian) gȕsjenica (sh) f. Slovak: husenica (sk) f. Slovene: gosenica (sl) f. Spanish: oruga (es) f. Swahili: kiwavi (nc 7/8) Swedish: fjärilslarv (sv) c. (larva of a butterfly), mallarv (sv) c. (larva of a moth) Turkish: tırtıl (tr) Ukrainian: гусениця (uk) (húsenycja) f. Urdu: please add this translation if you can

vehicle with a caterpillar track

Catalan: eruga (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 履帶式車輛 (zh), 履带式车辆 (zh) (lǚdàishì chēliàng) Finnish: telaketjutraktori (fi), (informally) katepillari (fi) Greek: ερπυστριοφόρος ελκυστήρας (el) (erpystriofóros elkystíras) m. Hungarian: hernyótalpas traktor (hu)

Japanese: キャタピラ (ja) (kyatapira), 無限軌道 (ja) (むげんきどう, mugen kidō) Macedonian: гасеничар (mk) (gaséničar) m. Polish: pojazd gąsienicowy (pl) m. Russian: гусеничный трактор (ru) (gúseničnyj tráctor) m. Spanish: oruga (es) f., tractor de oruga (es) f.