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Small, hairless caterpillar
Answer for the clue "Small, hairless caterpillar ", 8 letters:
inchworm
Alternative clues for the word inchworm
- Small hairless caterpillar
- Mostly larvae of moths of the family Geometridae
- Small caterpillar
- Small hairless caterpillar having legs on only its front and rear segments
- Geometer moth caterpillar
- Short crawler?
- Insect named for the way it moves, not for its length
- Song about an animal "measuring the marigolds"
Word definitions for inchworm in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
An inchworm is the caterpillar of a geometer moth. Inchworm may also refer to: "Inchworm" (song) , a song from the film Hans Christian Andersen Inchworm (toy) , a ride-on toy manufactured by Hasbro in the 1970s Inchworm motor , an electric motor patented ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1844, American English, from inch (v.) + worm (n.). Other old names for it included loaper caterpiller and surveyor , all from its mode of progress.
Usage examples of inchworm.
Moving like an inchworm, one hitching step at a time, he made his way out of his pavilion.
The pups rode beside them now, their bodies like inchworms, spindly limbs drawn up tight.
The caterpillar of the moth is a crop pest, a green inchworm known as the alfalfa looper.
The inchworm had negotiated the shoe and disappeared into the crushed leafery beyond, and the sawdust was mounding tremendously three or four inches high.
He remembered days when his father had taken him to fish for trout in Dewflood Stream, where the weeping willows bent low over the water and green inchworms hung from the willow branches on silken threads, taunting the trout.