caterpillar

noun · verbB2

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

caterpillarscaterpiller

1.
The larva of a butterfly or moth; leafworm.
The bird just ate that green caterpillar.
2.
A vehicle with a caterpillar track; a crawler.
3.
(mathematics) A set of subtrees of a tree.
4.
(obsolete)A rapacious, extortionate person preying upon the community.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

caterpillars

V_ing/Gerund

caterpillaring

V_ed/pp

caterpillaredcaterpiller

1.
(intransitive)To move along slowly, drawing one's body up, in the manner of a caterpillar.

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Đồng nghĩa

leafworm

Cùng gốc / liên quan

pillar

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English catirpel, catirpeller, probably from catepeluse (Modern French chatte + pileuse (hairy cat)), from catta + pilōsa. The sense "rapacious, extortionate person" arose by association with obsolete piller (plunderer). See Modern Norman cattepeleuse. Displaced native kaleworm, from cowle worm, cale worme (caterpillar, corn weevil), from cawelwyrm, cawelwurm (caterpillar).