caterpillar

English

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A caterpillar—the larva of a butterfly or moth.

Etymology

From Middle English catirpel, catirpeller, probably from Old Northern French catepelose (Modern French chat + pileux (“hairy cat”)), from Late Latin cattus + pilōsus.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkætəpɪlə(ɹ)/

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Noun

caterpillar (plural caterpillars)

1. The larva of a butterfly or moth; leafworm.

   The bird just ate that green caterpillar.

2. A vehicle with a caterpillar track; a crawler.

Synonyms

• (moth or butterfly larva): leafworm

Derived terms

• caterpillar catcher
• caterpillar eater
• caterpillar hunter
• caterpillar track
• tent caterpillar

Translations

larva of a butterfly

• Albanian: vemje
• Arabic: دودة الفراشة f (duudat al-faraasha)
• Armenian: թրթուր (tʿrtʿur)
• Azeri: tırtıl (az)
• Basque: har, beldar
• Belarusian: вусень m (vúsen')
• Bulgarian: гъсеница (bg) f (găsénica)
• Catalan: eruga f
• Cebuano: til-as
• Chichewa: mbozi
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 毛毛蟲, 毛毛虫 (zh) (máomáochóng), 毛蟲, 毛虫 (zh) (máochóng)

• Czech: housenka (cs) f
• Danish: larve c, kålorm c
• Dutch: rups (nl) f
• Esperanto: raŭpo
• Estonian: tõuk
• Finnish: perhostoukka (fi)
• French: chenille (fr) f
• Galician: eiruga (gl) f
• Georgian: მუხლუხი (muxluxi)
• German: Raupe (de) f
• Greek: κάμπια (el) f (kámpia)
• Haitian Creole: chini
• Hebrew: זַחַל m (zakhal)
• Hindi: इल्ली (illī)
• Hungarian: hernyó (hu)
• Icelandic: lirfa (is)
• Ido: raupo (io)
• Irish: bolb m
• Italian: bruco (it) m
• Japanese: 毛虫 (けむし, kemushi), 芋虫 (いもむし, imomushi)
• Javanese: uler
• Jèrriais: carpéleuse f

• Korean: 모충 (mochung)
• Latin: ērūca f
• Lojban: ciftoldi
• Low German: Ruup (nds) f
• Macedonian: гасеница f (gasénica)
• Malagasy: fanday (mg)
• Malay: beluncas
• Maltese: dudu tal-ħarir m
• Maori: torongū, tōtorongū, whē
• Navajo: wódítłʼooí, chʼosh ditłʼooí
• Norwegian: larve (no) m
• Persian: كرم‌ صدپا
• Polish: gąsienica (pl) f
• Portuguese: lagarta (pt) f
• Romanian: omidă (ro) f
• Russian: гусеница (ru) f (gúsenica)
• Sardinian: ruga f
• Scots: oobit
• Scottish Gaelic: burras m, bratag f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гусеница f, (Ijekavian) гу̏сјеница f

  Roman: gusenica f, (Ekavian) gȕsjenica f

• Slovak: husenica f
• Slovene: gosenica (sl) f
• Spanish: oruga (es) f, cuncuna (es) f
• Sundanese: hileud
• Swedish: fjärilslarv c (larva of a butterfly), mallarv c (larva of a moth)
• Tamil: கம்பளிப்பூச்சி (ta) (kambaḷi-p-pūcci)
• Turkish: tırtıl (tr)
• Ukrainian: гусениця f (húsenycja)
• Urdu: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: sâu (vi), sâu róm (vi), sâu bướm
• Vilamovian: raojp
• Volapük: jönul (vo), (diminutive) jönulil

vehicle with a caterpillar track

• Catalan: eruga f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 履帶式車輛, 履带式车辆 (lǚdàishì chēliàng)

• Finnish: telaketjutraktori, (informally) katepillari
• German: Raupe (de) f, Raupenfahrzeug n
• Greek: ερπυστριοφόρος ελκυστήρας m (erpystriofóros elkystíras)
• Hungarian: hernyótalpas traktor

• Japanese: キャタピラ (kyatapira), 無限軌道 (むげんきどう, mugen kidō)
• Macedonian: гасеничар m (gaséničar)
• Polish: pojazd gąsienicowy m
• Romanian: șenilă (ro) f
• Russian: гусеничный трактор m (gúseničnyj tráctor)
• Spanish: oruga (es) f, tractor de oruga f

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Translations to be checked

• Swahili: kiwavi (sw) (nc 7/8)

See also

• pillar