caterpillar
英 [ˈkætəpɪlə(r)]
美 [ˈkætərpɪlər]
n. 毛虫，蠋(蝴蝶或蛾的幼虫)
复数：caterpillars
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
- Peculiarities in the silkworm are known to appear at the corresponding caterpillar or cocoon stage.
蚕体的性状，亦限于相当的幼虫期或蛹期出现。 - You are this caterpillar now;
你们现在就是这只毛毛虫； - After a few weeks, the caterpillar emerges from its cocoon.
几周之之后，毛虫从茧里面出来了。 - Aw, someone's turningback into a caterpillar.
哈某人变回毛毛虫了。 - 'I don't know,'said the Caterpillar.
我不懂，毛虫说。 - I am a little caterpillar.
我是一条小毛毛虫。 - A caterpillar changed into a butterfly.
毛虫变成了蝴蝶。 - We have an advantage in vine-cell engineering and artificial cultivation of Chinese caterpillar fungus.
细胞工程和人工培养全虫草是我们的优势。 - 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。 - That is not said right,'said the Caterpillar.
这是不正确的说，'毛毛虫说。