Synonyms for caterpillar
ˈkæt əˌpɪl ər, ˈkæt ər-cater·pil·lar

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1. caterpillarnoun

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

   Synonyms:
   cat

2. Caterpillar, catnoun

   a large tracked vehicle that is propelled by two endless metal belts; frequently used for moving earth in construction and farm work

   Synonyms:
   computed tomography, computed axial tomography, cat-o'-nine-tails, qat, computerized axial tomography, big cat, cat, guy, hombre, khat, computerized tomography, bozo, true cat, quat, kat

Matched Categories

1. • Larva
   • Tracked Vehicle

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1. List of paraphrases for "caterpillar":

   chenille, larva, larvae, moth

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1. Joseph Quinlan:

   The( Caterpillar) news is not helping matters, it's emblematic of a weaker global economy.

2. James Delgado:

   It really looked like a big fuzzy caterpillar stretched out on the bottom.

3. Greg McKenna:

   If you recall what happened when the CFO of Caterpillar said last earnings season that Q1 was likely to be the high water mark. All we need is somebody with serious exposure to the global economy to do something similar and we're talking about the downside again for stocks, not the upside.

4. Melissa Hanham:

   It uses caterpillar treads which means it can go off road more easily, which mean they can hide them more easily.

5. Jeff Goldblum:

   I don’t know anything about what I’m talking about. But let’s utter the word ‘entropy’ and ‘systems’ and how things break down, before the butterfly comes out of the chrysalis, the caterpillar has some convulsions, chaotic convulsions. But it’s not death, necessarily. It’s the onset of transformation.