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TENT CATERPILLAR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The larvae of moths that build and live in communal silken webs in orchard and shade trees
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("tent caterpillar" is a kind of...):
caterpillar (a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tent caterpillar"):
forest tent caterpillar; Malacosoma disstria (larvae of a gregarious North American moth that spins a web resembling a carpet rather than a tent; serious defoliator of deciduous trees)
Holonyms ("tent caterpillar" is a member of...):
genus Malacosoma; Malacosoma (tent caterpillars)
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