Though an insect larva, its name comes from French for “hairy cat”
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caterpillar - definition of caterpillar in English | Oxford Dictionaries  1.1(in general use) any insect larva resembling the larvae of caterpillars and ... Origin. Late Middle English: perhaps from a variant of Old French chatepelose, literally hairy cat, influenced by obsolete piller 'ravager'. ... Before you run for the hills, let's run through a list of 'run' expressions that are running through our minds.
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Butterfly Etymology - Cultural Entomology Digest - Insect Facts ...  Read the insect article 'Butterfly Etymology', originally featured in the Cultural. ... have been thought to resemble butter, hence giving the name butter-shit, then butter-fly. Webster's Third New International Dictionary says perhaps the word comes from .... Thus English caterpillar is a hairy cat, and the French is a hairy dog.
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Caterpillar | Define Caterpillar at Dictionary.com  Caterpillar definition, the wormlike larva of a butterfly or a moth. ... Word Origin. C15 catyrpel, probably from Old Northern French catepelose, literally: hairy cat...
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Netting The Origin Of A Few Insect Species Names - Collections  Aug 25, 2013 ... Or is its name derived from butter? ... Some experts believe the name comes from the butter-yellow color of the wings of many butterfly species. ... Caterpillar  The French thought this fuzzy fellow looked like a hairy cat, so they ... masked the butterfly within it, "larva" became a general term for the early life...
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Caterpillar - definition of caterpillar by The Free Dictionary  Any of various insect larvae similar to those of the butterfly or moth. ... Word History: Larvae of moths and butterflies are popularly seen as resembling ... from an unattested Old North French word *catepelose, meaning literally "hairy cat. ... on only its front and rear segments; mostly larvae of moths of the family Geometridae.
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Behind the Name: French Names  This name may be viewed either as meaning "father of many" in Hebrew or ... the name of various places within the Roman Empire, including the city Alba Longa. ... Derived from the Old English name lfrd, composed of the elements lf ..... Saint Colette was a 15th-century French nun who gave her money to the poor.
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Full text of "Contested etymologies in the dictionary of the Rev. W. W. ...  Professor Skeat, in his Appendix, gives up the derivation from on-cam-bow, i.e., .... The word, however, must have come to us through the French, because the ...... no community of meaning with the modern bigot, and there is as little reason for ...... the name with much greater probability from the shrill voice of the insect.
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Longhair Cats - the messybeast  Long hair mutations are seen in other cat species e.g. the cheetah has produced ... They were also known as Chinese (some longhairs were imported from China .... He noted that white and silver (chinchilla?) were most popular, followed by blue, ...... Lauder wrote "probably simply a variation - with a coat of different length...
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jeopardy/1173_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  Value: $800. Number: 19. INSECTS | A long-horned grasshopper gets this name from the love call produced by rubbing its two front wings together | the katydid.
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June  2008  Naturespeak - BlogsMonroe.com  Jun 30, 2008 ... The root word for chrysalis means  gold  in the ancient Greek tongue. ... as the swallow-tailed adult emerges from its green-gold chalice.  .   ... This is the color of June deer and field-walking summer Sandhill Cranes. .....  She was just a pupae encased within a silken bag of her own larval construction.
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J! Archive - Show #3358, aired 1999-03-24  The katydid is also called the long-horned (meaning long-antennaed) one of these .... Latin term for a type of argument based on emotion or on another person's...
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Larval stage - definition of Larval stage by The Free Dictionary  Larval stage synonyms, Larval stage pronunciation, Larval stage translation, ... An animal in an early stage of development that differs greatly in appearance ... The immature, wingless, and usually worm-like feeding form of those insects that undergo three stages of metamorphosis, such as butterflies, moths, and beetles.
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EUdict | butterfly larva, wormlike larva of a butterfly or moth | English ...  English-English Translation for butterfly larva, wormlike larva of a butterfly or moth - online dictionary EUdict.com.
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katydid | insect | Britannica.com  Feb 11, 2015 ... Katydid (family Tettigoniidae), also called long-horned grasshopper or bushcricket, also spelled bush cricket, any of about 6,000 predominantly nocturnal insects that are related to crickets (the two groups are in the suborder Ensifera, order Orthoptera) and are noted for their mating calls.
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Praying Mantis: Class, Characteristics, Reproduction | Online ...  The name is derived from the prayer-like position in which the insect holds its long, ... It is also called the preying mantis because of its predatory nature. ... The Carolina mantis has an egg case that looks like a short elongated tube, often .... sometimes devours the male during the mating process (between 5-31% if the...
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Butterflies and moths - Q-files Encyclopedia  When it is big enough, it grows a pupa, called a chrysalis, around its body, inside which its adult form takes shape ... Most butterflies and moths have scales that are coloured. .... The word chrysalis comes from the Greek chrysos, meaning gold.
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European Earwigs - Department of Entomology - Penn State University  The name earwig, which literally means ear creature, originated from the widespread superstition that these insects crawl into the ears of sleeping people.
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Latin - Unionpedia, the concept map  Latin (Latin: lingua latna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic ... Acaryochloris marina is a symbiotic species of the phylum Cyanobacteria ...... under whose name there has come down a life of the first apostle of Armenia ...... The annelids (Annelida, from Latin anellus, "little ring"), also known as the ringed worms or...
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acrido-, acrid-, acris- - Word Information  Greek: grasshopper, grasshoppers; locust, locusts; cricket, crickets. ... A grasshopper or locust with short antennae, a short-horned grasshopper. ... There are about 7,000 species in 1,100 genera. ... billions that impoverish African and Asian farmers, these voracious eaters feast on crops of leaves, stalks, and tons of grains.
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Cocoon of the Metallic Mechanitis Butterfly Chrysalis from Costa ...  Golden chrysalis of a common Brazilian butterfly, family Nymphalidae, gender Mechanitis. .... The name of this plant is Amours en cage Its flowers, solitary, grow in the leaf axils. .... I love this picture of a Blue Tit - another water reflection ... .1600, from Latin chrysallis, from Greek khrysallis (genitive khrysallidos) "golden...
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measuring worm | larva | Britannica.com  Measuring worm (family Geometridae), also called Looper, Cankerworm, or Inchworm, the larva of any of a large group of moths in the order Lepidoptera. ... Many other caterpillars, especially those of prominent moths (family Notodontidae), .... Snowshoe hare (Lepus americanus) with its Summer coat on the left side and its.