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Caterpillar

noun

A wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth.

A large tracked vehicle that is propelled by two endless metal belts; frequently used for moving earth in construction and farm work. Synonym: cat.

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"Caterpillar" Quotes from Famous Books

... Miss Thusa has been telling her some of her awful ghost stories," said Louis, laughing over the wreck of his slate. "I know what sent the yellow caterpillar crawling ...

— Helen and Arthur - or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel • Caroline Lee Hentz

... went much into society. Their name was that of an ancient French noble house, with which, in fact, they had no connection. They took great pains to call themselves Creoles, though they knew well enough they were Acadians. The Acadian caterpillar often turns into a Creole butterfly. Their great-grandfather, one of the children of the Nova-Scotian deportation, had been a tobacco-farmer on the old Cote Acadien in St. John the Baptist parish. Lake des Allemands lay there, just behind him. In 1815, ...

— Bonaventure - A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana • George Washington Cable

... To see a caterpillar in a dream, denotes that low and hypocritical people are in your immediate future, and you will do well to keep clear of deceitful appearances. You may suffer a ...

— 10,000 Dreams Interpreted • Gustavus Hindman Miller

... said, when the laughter had subsided, "we must ask what is meant by 'protecting his own existence.' Frankly, we've been driven frantic by that one. The little humanoid, caterpillar-track mechanism that we all tend to think of as Snookums isn't really Snookums, any more than a human being is a hand or an eye. Snookums wouldn't actually be threatening his own existence unless his brain—now in the hold of the William ...

— Unwise Child • Gordon Randall Garrett

... Since you were a vile crawling thing! Though now endowed with painted wing, You then were vilest of the vile— I was a snail, but housed the while; Was born a snail, and snail shall die; And thou, though now a butterfly, Will leave behind a baneful breed Of caterpillar ...

— Fables of John Gay - (Somewhat Altered) • John Gay

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