forest tent caterpillar

forest tent caterpillar

noun
See under tent caterpillar.

Origin:
1850–55, Americanism

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tent caterpillar

noun
1.
any of the larvae of several moths of the genus Malacosoma, which feed on the leaves of orchard and shade trees and live colonially in a tentlike silken web.
2.
the North American larva of M. disstria (forest tent caterpillar), which spins a dense net.

Origin:
1850–55, Americanism
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forest tent caterpillar

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