MEASURING WORM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does measuring worm mean? 

• MEASURING WORM (noun)
  The noun MEASURING WORM has 1 sense:

1. small hairless caterpillar having legs on only its front and rear segments; mostly larvae of moths of the family Geometridae

  Familiarity information: MEASURING WORM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEASURING WORM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small hairless caterpillar having legs on only its front and rear segments; mostly larvae of moths of the family Geometridae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

inchworm; looper; measuring worm

Hypernyms ("measuring worm" is a kind of...):

caterpillar (a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth)