tussock caterpillar

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noun

the larva of a tussock moth.

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Words nearby tussock caterpillar

tussis, tussive, tussive fremitus, tussle, tussock, tussock caterpillar, tussock grass, tussock moth, tussocky, tussore, Tustin

How to use tussock caterpillar in a sentence

Nearby, a yellow Caterpillar excavator sits idle next to an opening that once led into a cross-border tunnel.
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Her father worked for Caterpillar and was a member of the United Auto Workers.
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Caterpillar notched record profits in 2012 and then in early 2013 bludgeoned its unions into accepting a six-year wage freeze.
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“I always try to communicate to our people that we can never make enough money,” as Caterpillar CEO Doug Oberhelman put it.
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What of the infinite goodness of God in teaching the grub of the ichneumon-fly to eat up the cabbage caterpillar alive?
God and my Neighbour|Robert Blatchford
The man is as ugly as a caterpillar; but he has done me the most immense service a woman can receive from a man.
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The caterpillar produces silk, though it is not equal to that of the better known silkworm.
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Grimm has recorded that in old German, the caterpillar was named Alba, and that the Alp often takes the form of a butterfly.
Archaic England|Harold Bayley
Luther, taking up a caterpillar, said: "'Tis an emblem of the devil in its crawling, and bears his colours in its changing hue."
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