caterpillar vs potato tuberworm

potato tuberworm vs caterpillar

caterpillar and potato tuberworm both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
caterpillar	Yes	No	No	No
potato tuberworm	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, potato tuberworm is a hyponym of caterpillar; that is, potato tuberworm 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
potato tuberworm: larva of potato moth; mines in leaves and stems of e.g. potatoes and tobacco

Other hyponyms of caterpillar include tussock caterpillar, cankerworm, inchworm, looper, measuring worm, Phthorimaea operculella, 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)	potato tuberworm (noun)
a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth	larva of potato moth; mines in leaves and stems of e.g. potatoes and tobacco

Difference between caterpillar and potato tuberworm

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