FOREST TENT CATERPILLAR

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Meaning:

Larvae of a gregarious North American moth that spins a web resembling a carpet rather than a tent; serious defoliator of deciduous trees

Synonyms:

forest tent caterpillar; Malacosoma disstria

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("forest tent caterpillar" is a kind of...):

tent caterpillar (the larvae of moths that build and live in communal silken webs in orchard and shade trees)

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