caterpillar vs cankerworm

cankerworm vs caterpillar

caterpillar and cankerworm both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
caterpillar	Yes	No	No	No
cankerworm	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, cankerworm is a hyponym of caterpillar; that is, cankerworm 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
cankerworm: green caterpillar of a geometrid moth; pest of various fruit and shade trees

Other hyponyms of caterpillar include tussock caterpillar, inchworm, looper, measuring worm, Phthorimaea operculella, potato tuberworm, cutworm, army worm, armyworm, Pseudaletia unipuncta, beet armyworm, 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)	cankerworm (noun)
a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth	green caterpillar of a geometrid moth; pest of various fruit and shade trees

Difference between caterpillar and cankerworm

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