Caterpillar
noun
A small creature with many legs and long soft body. It is the baby of a butterfly or moth.
The caterpillar is going to turn into a beautiful butterfly soon.
Often appears as...
- silk caterpillar
- caterpillar fur
noun
The name of a big company that makes engines and equipment for construction and mining.
Caterpillar Inc. is a leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment.
Often appears as...
- caterpillar inc.
- caterpillar engine
noun
A vehicle used in construction, that moves on continuous band of large metal plates.
The caterpillar helped us move the huge rocks out of the site.
Often appears as...
- caterpillar tracks
- caterpillar vehicle
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Technical
noun
A small creature with many legs and long soft body. It is the baby of a butterfly or moth.
The caterpillar is going to turn into a beautiful butterfly soon.
Often appears as...
- silk caterpillar
- caterpillar fur
noun
The name of a big company that makes engines and equipment for construction and mining.
Caterpillar Inc. is a leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment.
Often appears as...
- caterpillar inc.
- caterpillar engine
noun
A vehicle used in construction, that moves on continuous band of large metal plates.
The caterpillar helped us move the huge rocks out of the site.
Often appears as...
- caterpillar tracks
- caterpillar vehicle
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Metamorphosis Stage
Remember, 'caterpillar' refers to the stage before it becomes a butterfly or moth.
Children watched the caterpillar, anticipating its transformation.
Pro Tip 2/3Natural Context
Use 'caterpillar' when talking about nature, insects, or life cycles.
The biology teacher explained how a caterpillar changes into a butterfly.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Fuzzy
Caterpillars can be fuzzy, but many species have smooth bodies.
That smooth green caterpillar will soon be a moth.
Pro Tip 1/3Metamorphosis Stage
Remember, 'caterpillar' refers to the stage before it becomes a butterfly or moth.
Children watched the caterpillar, anticipating its transformation.
Pro Tip 2/3Natural Context
Use 'caterpillar' when talking about nature, insects, or life cycles.
The biology teacher explained how a caterpillar changes into a butterfly.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Fuzzy
Caterpillars can be fuzzy, but many species have smooth bodies.
That smooth green caterpillar will soon be a moth.
Pro Tip 1/3Metamorphosis Stage
Remember, 'caterpillar' refers to the stage before it becomes a butterfly or moth.
Children watched the caterpillar, anticipating its transformation.
Pro Tip 2/3Natural Context
Use 'caterpillar' when talking about nature, insects, or life cycles.
The biology teacher explained how a caterpillar changes into a butterfly.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Fuzzy
Caterpillars can be fuzzy, but many species have smooth bodies.
That smooth green caterpillar will soon be a moth.
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Michael Dickinson: How a...
with trying to compute information with tiny, tiny neurons. How small can neurons get? Well, look at this interesting insect. It looks sort of like a fly. It has wings, it has eyes, it has antennae, its legs, complicated life history, it's a parasite, it has to fly around and find caterpillars to parasatize,
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The weird and wonderful...
The leading theory is that the caterpillar is actually a drawn-out version of a life stage that takes place inside the egg for some other insects. According to this hypothesis, over millions of years, the larvae evolved the ability to eat and live outside the egg.
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Zombie Parasites PIPE Nat...
and in this case it injects several dozen eggs at the same time. Those eggs hatch inside the caterpillar and just like the ladybug they know to avoid the internal organs of the caterpillar, just like the ladybug they have a virus that helps them.
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Why are there so many...
This trait not only transforms insects, but also helps them maximize the available resources in an ecosystem. Take butterflies. In their larval caterpillar form, they chomp hungrily through leaves at a rapid rate
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This Fungus Turns...
fungi spread across the world other creatures such as wasps moths and caterpillars have also fallen prey to these parasites ants are another notable victim of these killer fungi
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How Do Birds Incubate...
this is the caterpillar of a winter moth and each chick will need to eat about a thousand of these in the first two weeks of its life that means in turn that the parents
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An ode to the millennial...
expect the caterpillar to transform into a butterfly overnight because this is the millennial generation manifesto and this is our only demand listen and learn
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Beautiful Butterfly...
is taken back to the nest by the foraging ant workers but it doesn't repay the favor once underground the caterpillar leads a predatory life
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Body Invaders PIPE National...
womb has protected them but now they no longer need it to complete the next stage of their lifecycle they must break out the caterpillars
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Ants Battle to Protect...
They exude a sugary secretion that the ants collect. In return, the ants mount a guard to protect the caterpillar wherever it goes.
Video examples
Michael Dickinson: How a...
with trying to compute information with tiny, tiny neurons. How small can neurons get? Well, look at this interesting insect. It looks sort of like a fly. It has wings, it has eyes, it has antennae, its legs, complicated life history, it's a parasite, it has to fly around and find caterpillars to parasatize,
Video examples
The weird and wonderful...
The leading theory is that the caterpillar is actually a drawn-out version of a life stage that takes place inside the egg for some other insects. According to this hypothesis, over millions of years, the larvae evolved the ability to eat and live outside the egg.
Video examples
Zombie Parasites PIPE Nat...
and in this case it injects several dozen eggs at the same time. Those eggs hatch inside the caterpillar and just like the ladybug they know to avoid the internal organs of the caterpillar, just like the ladybug they have a virus that helps them.
Video examples
Why are there so many...
This trait not only transforms insects, but also helps them maximize the available resources in an ecosystem. Take butterflies. In their larval caterpillar form, they chomp hungrily through leaves at a rapid rate
Video examples
This Fungus Turns...
fungi spread across the world other creatures such as wasps moths and caterpillars have also fallen prey to these parasites ants are another notable victim of these killer fungi
Video examples
How Do Birds Incubate...
this is the caterpillar of a winter moth and each chick will need to eat about a thousand of these in the first two weeks of its life that means in turn that the parents
Video examples
An ode to the millennial...
expect the caterpillar to transform into a butterfly overnight because this is the millennial generation manifesto and this is our only demand listen and learn
Video examples
Beautiful Butterfly...
is taken back to the nest by the foraging ant workers but it doesn't repay the favor once underground the caterpillar leads a predatory life
Video examples
Body Invaders PIPE National...
womb has protected them but now they no longer need it to complete the next stage of their lifecycle they must break out the caterpillars
Video examples
Ants Battle to Protect...
They exude a sugary secretion that the ants collect. In return, the ants mount a guard to protect the caterpillar wherever it goes.
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Sasha Lane
American Actress
I'll do anything that sparks me. Sometimes I'll want to do something random with ballet, and then I'll want to be a hippie caterpillar in an animation film. Who knows what will come my way, but I'm going to try and put little hints into the universe, and hopefully they'll float on by.
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Douglas R. Oberhelman
American Businessman
Caterpillar exported $20 billion of goods in 2011, all by American hands and American workers, to all over the world. In order to do that, we have to create jobs in all those countries that we export to, to be able to sell there.
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AJ Lee
American Athlete
I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder when I was barely out of my teens. Like our olive skin tone and caterpillar eyebrows, I guess it just runs in the family.
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Aquaria
American
Getting into drag almost seemed like, not my destiny, but you know how a caterpillar is gonna become a butterfly no matter what? It felt very like that.
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Lil B
American Musician
I mean, everything that is upon this earth, even from a worm or a caterpillar that blossoms into a butterfly, you know, these things are just amazing.
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Robert Wyatt
English Musician
I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar.
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Sabine Baring-Gould
English Clergyman
The whole of society is like a cabbage-stalk covered with caterpillars, and none is satisfied till it has crawled to the top.
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Lynn Margulis
American Scientist
Everybody knows what a caterpillar is, and it doesn't look anything like a butterfly.
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R. Buckminster Fuller
American Inventor
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
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Richard Bach
American Novelist
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.
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Sasha Lane
American Actress
I'll do anything that sparks me. Sometimes I'll want to do something random with ballet, and then I'll want to be a hippie caterpillar in an animation film. Who knows what will come my way, but I'm going to try and put little hints into the universe, and hopefully they'll float on by.
Quote examples
Douglas R. Oberhelman
American Businessman
Caterpillar exported $20 billion of goods in 2011, all by American hands and American workers, to all over the world. In order to do that, we have to create jobs in all those countries that we export to, to be able to sell there.
Quote examples
AJ Lee
American Athlete
I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder when I was barely out of my teens. Like our olive skin tone and caterpillar eyebrows, I guess it just runs in the family.
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Aquaria
American
Getting into drag almost seemed like, not my destiny, but you know how a caterpillar is gonna become a butterfly no matter what? It felt very like that.
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Lil B
American Musician
I mean, everything that is upon this earth, even from a worm or a caterpillar that blossoms into a butterfly, you know, these things are just amazing.
Quote examples
Robert Wyatt
English Musician
I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar.
Quote examples
Sabine Baring-Gould
English Clergyman
The whole of society is like a cabbage-stalk covered with caterpillars, and none is satisfied till it has crawled to the top.
Quote examples
Lynn Margulis
American Scientist
Everybody knows what a caterpillar is, and it doesn't look anything like a butterfly.
Quote examples
R. Buckminster Fuller
American Inventor
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
Quote examples
Richard Bach
American Novelist
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.
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