Caterpillar

Definitions

1. The larva of a butterfly or moth; leafworm.
2. A vehicle with a caterpillar track; a crawler.
3. A set of subtrees of a tree.
4. A rapacious, extortionate person preying upon the community.
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“The bird just ate that green caterpillar.”

“A caterpillar is letting itself down on a thread, twirling slowly like⟳ a rope artist, spiralling towards his chest. It’s a luscious, unreal green, like⟳ a gumdrop, and covered with tiny bright hairs.”

“Bristow Castle, which they say⟳ is held By Busbie, Bagot, and their Complices, The Caterpillers of the Commonwealth, Which I haue sworne to weed, and plucke away.”

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