TENT CATERPILLAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tent caterpillar mean? 

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

1. the larvae of moths that build and live in communal silken webs in orchard and shade trees

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TENT CATERPILLAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The larvae of moths that build and live in communal silken webs in orchard and shade trees

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Nouns denoting animals

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)