ALL meanings of tent caterpillar
tent cat·er·pil·lar
T t - noun tent caterpillar any of the larvae of several moths of the genus Malacosoma, which feed on the leaves of orchard and shade trees and live colonially in a tentlike silken web. 1
- noun tent caterpillar the North American larva of M. disstria (forest tent caterpillar) which spins a dense net. 1
- noun tent caterpillar the larva of various moths of the family Lasiocampidae, esp Malacosoma americana of North America, which build communal webs in trees 0
- noun tent caterpillar any of various caterpillars (esp. genus Malacosoma, family Lasiocampidae) that usually live in colonies in large, tentlike webs spun among the branches of trees, which they defoliate 0