caterpillar vs beet armyworm

beet armyworm vs caterpillar

caterpillar and beet armyworm both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
caterpillar	Yes	No	No	No
beet armyworm	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, beet armyworm is a hyponym of caterpillar; that is, beet armyworm is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than caterpillar:

caterpillar: a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth
beet armyworm: moth larva that eats foliage of beets and other vegetables

Other hyponyms of caterpillar include tussock caterpillar, cankerworm, inchworm, looper, measuring worm, Phthorimaea operculella, potato tuberworm, cutworm, army worm, armyworm, Pseudaletia unipuncta, Spodoptera exigua, fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda, Manduca sexta, tobacco hornworm, tomato worm, Manduca quinquemaculata, potato worm, tomato hornworm, silkworm, giant silkworm, silkworm, wild wilkworm, tent caterpillar, lappet caterpillar, webworm, corn borer, Pyrausta nubilalis, bollworm, cabbageworm, Pieris rapae, woolly bear, woolly bear caterpillar.

caterpillar (noun)	beet armyworm (noun)
a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth	moth larva that eats foliage of beets and other vegetables

Difference between caterpillar and beet armyworm

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