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FOREST TENT CATERPILLAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does forest tent caterpillar mean? 

FOREST TENT CATERPILLAR (noun)
  The noun FOREST TENT CATERPILLAR has 1 sense:

1. larvae of a gregarious North American moth that spins a web resembling a carpet rather than a tent; serious defoliator of deciduous treesplay

  Familiarity information: FOREST TENT CATERPILLAR used as a noun is very rare.


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FOREST TENT CATERPILLAR (noun)


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Meaning:

Larvae of a gregarious North American moth that spins a web resembling a carpet rather than a tent; serious defoliator of deciduous trees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

forest tent caterpillar; Malacosoma disstria

Hypernyms ("forest tent caterpillar" is a kind of...):

tent caterpillar (the larvae of moths that build and live in communal silken webs in orchard and shade trees)


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