caterpillar

英 [ˈkætəpɪlə(r)]

美 [ˈkætərpɪlər]

n.  毛虫，蠋(蝴蝶或蛾的幼虫)

复数：caterpillars　

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Collins.1 / BNC.10524 / COCA.13163

牛津词典

noun

• 毛虫，蠋（蝴蝶或蛾的幼虫）
  a small creature like a worm with legs, that develops into a butterfly or moth (= flying insects with large, sometimes brightly coloured, wings). Caterpillars eat the leaves of plants.

柯林斯词典

• 毛虫
  Acaterpillaris a small, worm-like animal that feeds on plants and eventually develops into a butterfly or moth.

英英释义

noun

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

双语例句

• A caterpillar's dream to fly.
  一个梦想飞翔的毛虫。
• One day, second only to Caterpillar also climb under the apple tree.
  一天，第二只毛虫也在苹果树下爬。
• Green caterpillar of a geometrid moth; pest of various fruit and shade trees.
  尺蠖蛾的绿色的毛虫；破坏多种果树和遮荫树。
• I used to watch the whole process from caterpillar to chrysalis and then to butterfly.
  我通常观察蝴蝶的整个生命过程&从毛虫变成蛹再变成蝴蝶。
• A caterpillar is the larva of a butterfly.
  毛虫是蝴蝶的幼体。
• He was a big, fat caterpillar.
  它是一条胖嘟嘟的大毛虫了。
• After a few weeks, the caterpillar emerges from its cocoon.
  几周之之后，毛虫从茧里面出来了。
• Picture five: I can see a white caterpillar.
  图五：我可以看到一只毛虫。
• A caterpillar changed into a butterfly.
  毛虫变成了蝴蝶。
• The Caterpillar was the first to speak.'What size do you want to be?
  毛毛虫首先开腔了：你想变成多么大小呢？