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tent caterpillar
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tent caterpillar
n.
Any of several destructive caterpillars of the family Lasiocampidae, especially of the genus Malacosoma, whose colonies construct silken tentlike webs in the branches of trees.
tent caterpillar
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) the larva of various moths of the family Lasiocampidae, esp Malacosoma americana of North America, which build communal webs in trees
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Noun1.tent caterpillar - the larvae of moths that build and live in communal silken webs in orchard and shade treestent caterpillar - the larvae of moths that build and live in communal silken webs in orchard and shade trees
genus Malacosoma, Malacosoma - tent caterpillars
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
caterpillar - a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth
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But in no way an invalid, Billy works feverishly to rid the garden of tent worms (scientifically, canker caterpillars) that build "great sagging canopies of transparent gray tissue among the thickly grown berry trees that surrounded their summer cottage" (200).
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