caterpillar vs fall armyworm

fall armyworm vs caterpillar

caterpillar and fall armyworm both are nouns.

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

As nouns, fall armyworm is a hyponym of caterpillar; that is, fall 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
fall armyworm: larva of a migratory American noctuid moth; destroys grasses and small grains

Other hyponyms of caterpillar include tussock caterpillar, cankerworm, inchworm, looper, measuring worm, Phthorimaea operculella, potato tuberworm, cutworm, army worm, armyworm, Pseudaletia unipuncta, beet armyworm, Spodoptera exigua, 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)	fall armyworm (noun)
a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth	larva of a migratory American noctuid moth; destroys grasses and small grains

Difference between caterpillar and fall armyworm

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