Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun forest_tent_caterpillar

1 sense of forest tent caterpillar

Sense 1
forest tent caterpillar, Malacosoma disstria -- (larvae of a gregarious North American moth that spins a web resembling a carpet rather than a tent; serious defoliator of deciduous trees)
       => tent caterpillar -- (the larvae of moths that build and live in communal silken webs in orchard and shade trees)