tent caterpillar

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.

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Noun

1.

tent 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