Used in a Sentence

caterpillars

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for caterpillars.

Editorial note

The myth is that GMO technology lets us produce high yield crops and mix a caterpillars with bananas to get Butterbananas.

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Definitions3
Parts of speech1

Quick take

The larva of a butterfly or moth; leafworm.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of caterpillars gathered in one view.

noun

The larva of a butterfly or moth; leafworm.

noun

A vehicle with a caterpillar track; a crawler.

noun

(mathematics) A set of subtrees of a tree.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for caterpillars.

noun

The larva of a butterfly or moth; leafworm.

noun

A vehicle with a caterpillar track; a crawler.

noun

(mathematics) A set of subtrees of a tree.

Example sentences

1

The myth is that GMO technology lets us produce high yield crops and mix a caterpillars with bananas to get Butterbananas.

2

People can die if an entire region's crop is eaten by locusts or aphids or caterpillars or whatever.

3

I'd be happy to see contained growing that means I'm not losing large amounts of my plants to slugs/snails and caterpillars as I am now.

4

Software isn't rainbows and butterflies, but it shouldn't be endless floods and caterpillars, either.

5

I don't live there anymore but am still extremely wary of caterpillars that have any fuzz or hair.

6

Now what if caterpillars change colour in response to atmospheric gasses, temperature, or diet?

7

That is all that their observations of caterpillars and trees and birds amounts to.

8

As my Minister used to say, There are pillars and there are caterpillars.

9

The Caterpillars just visit on Sunday; they crawl in and they crawl out.

10

As a kid, it was trivial during the summer to find monarch caterpillars.

11

Dissolving into the liquid oblivion of sleep, we are caterpillars to the butterflies of our next morning's waking selves.

12

Eating fermented fruits, licking psychedelic caterpillars, all of that has been documented.

Quote examples

1

In grade school, there was a tree we used to play near after school, and a fellow student cautioned several times about "asps" [asp caterpillars] around that tree.

2

I remember catching monarch butterfly caterpillars, as a child in New York, and keeping them with milkweed stems until they formed their chrysalis and eventually "hatched" as butterflies.

Proper noun examples

1

Caterpillars cannot incubate in the human stomach and metamorphose into a butterflies.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use caterpillars in a sentence?

The myth is that GMO technology lets us produce high yield crops and mix a caterpillars with bananas to get Butterbananas.

What does caterpillars mean?

The larva of a butterfly or moth; leafworm.

What part of speech is caterpillars?

caterpillars is commonly used as noun.