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- noun Plural form of
caterpillar .
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Examples
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Wasp larvae feeding on paralyzed caterpillars is certainly a disquieting image, to say nothing of malaria feeding on children.
Behe 2009
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Every year my kids and I collect Monarch butterfly eggs and caterpillars from the milkweed in my yard.
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Wasp larvae feeding on paralyzed caterpillars is certainly a disquieting image, to say nothing of malaria feeding on children.
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Wasp larvae feeding on paralyzed caterpillars is certainly a disquieting image, to say nothing of malaria feeding on children.
Behe Responds 2007
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Wasp larvae feeding on paralyzed caterpillars is certainly a disquieting image, to say nothing of malaria feeding on children.
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Wasp larvae feeding on paralyzed caterpillars is certainly a disquieting image, to say nothing of malaria feeding on children.
Behe Responds 2007
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Still, the siren call of those caterpillars is persistent.
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“Due to their high nutritional value in some regions, flour made from caterpillars is mixed to prepare pulp given to children to counter malnutrition,” said (FAO researcher Paul) Vantomme.
Boing Boing 2004
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"Whom do you call caterpillars?" cried Priest Rich, of North Surrey.
Old Portraits, Modern Sketches, Personal Sketches and Tributes Complete, Volume VI., the Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849
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"Whom do you call caterpillars?" cried Priest Rich, of North Surrey.
Old Portraits, Part 1, from Volume VI., The Works of Whittier: Old Portraits and Modern Sketches John Greenleaf Whittier 1849
mollusque commented on the word caterpillars
I separated another dollar from my exhibit and it went into his pocket with a sound like caterpillars fighting.
--Raymond Chandler, 1943, The Lady in the Lake, chapter 13
September 4, 2009
bilby commented on the word caterpillars
What is the sound of caterpillars fighting, grasshopper?
September 4, 2009