caterpillars

英 [ˈkætəpɪləz]

美 [ˈkætəˌpɪlərz]

n.  毛虫，蠋(蝴蝶或蛾的幼虫)
caterpillar的复数

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.

双语例句

• Well, caterpillars don't have to imagine-they take such drastic steps every day.
  毛毛虫可就不用费尽脑汁来想像了它们每天都是迈着这么激烈的步伐前进的！
• The Saturday Caterpillars have now finished the Bear books and are beginning to read other picture books.
  周六的毛毛虫班已完成了比尔熊系列书，准备开始读其他的绘本了。
• The caterpillars feed on a wide range of trees, shrubs and plants
  毛虫以各类树木、灌木和植物为食。
• The chicks/ caterpillars/ grubs have hatched (` out).
  小鸡[毛虫/小蛆]孵出来了。
• Silk moths lay several hundred eggs, and the tiny caterpillars that emerge eat nothing but mulberry leaves.
  蚕蛾可以产下好几百个卵，然后孵出蚕宝宝，他们只吃桑叶。
• Infestations of these caterpillars may defoliate oaks and other hardwood trees but usually do no permanent damage.
  这些毛虫的侵扰可能使橡树落叶和其他树木的硬木树但通常都没有永久性损伤。
• The caterpillars feed in large colonies.
  毛毛虫总是成群进食。
• Bristly fly whose larvae live parasitically in caterpillars and other insects; important in control of noxious insects.
  有刚毛的苍蝇，其幼虫寄生在毛虫或其它昆虫的身上；在控制有害昆虫方面很重要。
• If colored caterpillars could change their colors could they keep their colored coat colored properly?
  如果有色毛毛虫可以变颜色，它们能够保持皮毛的颜色适宜吗？
• Medium-sized hairy moths; larvae are lappet caterpillars.
  中等体型有毛的蛾子；幼虫为垂片毛虫。