caterpillar
Meaning of caterpillar
- the larva of a butterfly or moth, which has a segmented wormlike body with three pairs of true legs and several pairs of appendages similar to legs.
- an articulated steel band passing round the wheels of a vehicle for travel on rough ground.
late Middle English: perhaps from a variant of Old French chatepelose, literally ‘hairy cat’, influenced by obsolete piller ‘ravager’. The association with ‘cat’ is found in other languages, e.g. Swiss German Teufelskatz (literally ‘devil's cat’), Lombard gatta (literally ‘cat’). Compare with French chaton, English catkin, which resembles a hairy caterpillar.
Information about caterpillar
- It is a name.
- The plural form of caterpillar is: caterpillars.
- Languages in which caterpillar is used:
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Hyphenation of caterpillar
cater-pil-lar
- It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
- caterpillar is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
caterpillar synonyms
Meaning Caterpillar:
Translation of caterpillar
Words that rhyme with caterpillar
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