A name for certain caterpillars: = geometer, n. 4, looper, n.1 1.
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释义 | the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Geometridae > class of caterpillars > member of (9) surveyor1682 A name for certain caterpillars: = geometer, n. 4, looper, n.1 1. looper1731 The larva of any geometrid moth. Also attributive. span-worm1820 = looper, n.1 geometric caterpillar1835 the caterpillar of a geometrid moth (cf. geometer, n. 4). measuring worm1843 The larva of a geometrid moth; a looper caterpillar or inchworm; = inch-worm n. at inch, n.1 compounds 4. span-worm1852 (see quots.). inch-worma1861 a name for a geometer caterpillar, also called looper or measuring-worm; also figurative. measurer1868 The larva of a geometrid moth; a looper caterpillar. rare. loop-worm1880 = looper, n.1 1. |
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