Caterpillar vs. Worm

Caterpillarnoun

The larva of a butterfly or moth; leafworm.

Caterpillarnoun

A vehicle with a caterpillar track; a crawler.

Caterpillarnoun

The larval state of a butterfly or any lepidopterous insect; sometimes, but less commonly, the larval state of other insects, as the sawflies, which are also called false caterpillars. The true caterpillars have three pairs of true legs, and several pairs of abdominal fleshy legs (prolegs) armed with hooks. Some are hairy, others naked. They usually feed on leaves, fruit, and succulent vegetables, being often very destructive, Many of them are popularly called worms, as the cutworm, cankerworm, army worm, cotton worm, silkworm.

Caterpillarnoun

A plant of the genus Scorpiurus, with pods resembling caterpillars.

Caterpillarnoun

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

Caterpillarnoun

a large vehicle that is driven by caterpillar tracks; frequently used for moving earth in construction and farm work

Caterpillar

Caterpillars ( CAT-ər-pil-ər) are the larval stage of members of the order Lepidoptera (the insect order comprising butterflies and moths). As with most common names, the application of the word is arbitrary, since the larvae of sawflies are commonly called caterpillars as well.

Wormnoun

A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm.

Wormnoun

More loosely, any of various tubular invertebrates resembling annelids but not closely related to them, such as velvet worms, acorn worms, flatworms, or roundworms.

Wormnoun

(archaic) A type of wingless "dragon", especially a gigantic sea serpent.

Wormnoun

Either a mythical "dragon" (especially wingless), a gigantic sea serpent, or a creature that resembles a Mongolian death worm.

Wormnoun

A contemptible or devious being.

Wormnoun

(computing) A self-replicating program that propagates through a network.

Wormnoun

(cricket) A graphical representation of the total runs scored in an innings.

Wormnoun

Anything helical, especially the thread of a screw.

Wormnoun

A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.

Wormnoun

The spiral wire of a corkscrew.

Wormnoun

(anatomy) A muscular band in the tongue of some animals, such as dogs; the lytta.

Wormnoun

The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to save space.

Wormnoun

A short revolving screw whose threads drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel or rack by gearing into its teeth.

Wormnoun

(obsolete) Any creeping or crawling animal, such as a snake, snail, or caterpillar.

Wormnoun

(figuratively) An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one’s mind with remorse.

Wormnoun

(math) A strip of linked tiles sharing parallel edges in a tiling.

Wormnoun

(anatomy) The lytta.

Wormnoun

A dance, or dance move, in which the dancer lies on the floor and undulates the body horizontally thereby moving forwards.

Wormverb

(transitive) To make (one's way) with a crawling motion.

Wormverb

(intransitive) To move with one's body dragging the ground.

Wormverb

To work one's way by artful or devious means.

Wormverb

To work (one's way or oneself) (into) gradually or slowly; to insinuate.

Wormverb

To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means; often followed by out.

Wormverb

To drag out of, to get information that someone is reluctant or unwilling to give (through artful or devious means or by pleading or asking repeatedly).

Wormverb

To fill in the contlines of (a rope) before parcelling and serving.

Wormverb

(transitive) To deworm (an animal).

Wormverb

(transitive) To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of (a dog, etc.) for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw, and formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.

Wormverb

(transitive) To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm.

Wormnoun

A creeping or a crawling animal of any kind or size, as a serpent, caterpillar, snail, or the like.

Wormnoun

Any small creeping animal or reptile, either entirely without feet, or with very short ones, including a great variety of animals; as, an earthworm; the blindworm.

Wormnoun

An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one's mind with remorse.

Wormnoun

A being debased and despised.

Wormnoun

Anything spiral, vermiculated, or resembling a worm

Wormnoun

A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.

Wormverb

To work slowly, gradually, and secretly.

Wormverb

To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means; - often followed by out.

Wormverb

To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm. See Worm, n. 5 (b).

Wormverb

To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of, as a dog, for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw. The operation was formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.

Wormverb

To wind rope, yarn, or other material, spirally round, between the strands of, as a cable; to wind with spun yarn, as a small rope.

Wormnoun

any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae

Wormnoun

a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect

Wormnoun

a software program capable of reproducing itself that can spread from one computer to the next over a network;

Wormnoun

screw thread on a gear with the teeth of a worm wheel or rack

Wormverb

to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling);

Worm

Worms are many different distantly related animals that typically have a long cylindrical tube-like body, no limbs, and no eyes. Worms vary in size from microscopic to over 1 metre (3.3 ft) in length for marine polychaete worms (bristle worms), 6.7 metres (22 ft) for the African giant earthworm, Microchaetus rappi, and 58 metres (190 ft) for the marine nemertean worm (bootlace worm), Lineus longissimus.