单词 | tent caterpillar |
释义 | tent caterpillarnounany of the larvae of several moths of the genus Malacosoma, which feed on the leaves of orchard and shade trees and live colonially in a tentlike silken web. the North American larva of M. disstria(forest tent caterpillar ), which spins a dense net. Origin of tent caterpillarAn Americanism dating back to 1850–55 Words nearby tent caterpillartentage, tentation, tentative, tentatively, tent bed, tent caterpillar, tent circus, tent city, tent dress, tented, tenter Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for tent caterpillarBritish Dictionary definitions for tent caterpillartent caterpillar nounthe larva of various moths of the family Lasiocampidae, esp Malacosoma americana of North America, which build communal webs in trees Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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