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

• D: Do you happen to keep caterpillars, perhaps the hook-tip moth?
  该不会你正好养了毛虫，或是钩翅蛾吧？
• 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。
• 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。
• Caterpillars change into butterflies or moths.
  毛虫能变成蝴蝶或蛾子。
• And we saw venomous caterpillars.
  而我们看见了有毒的毛毛虫。
• 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？
• The caterpillars tunnel into the fruit to grow and mature.
  毛虫钻入果实，并在其中生长为成虫。
• 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。
• The caterpillars feed in large colonies.
  毛毛虫总是成群进食。
• 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。