caterpillar vs potato worm

potato worm vs caterpillar

caterpillar and potato worm both are nouns.

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

As nouns, potato worm is a hyponym of caterpillar; that is, potato worm 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 worm: large green white-striped hawkmoth larva that feeds on tomato and potato plants; similar to tobacco hornworm

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, fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda, Manduca sexta, tobacco hornworm, tomato worm, Manduca quinquemaculata, 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 worm (noun)
a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth	large green white-striped hawkmoth larva that feeds on tomato and potato plants; similar to tobacco hornworm

Difference between caterpillar and potato worm

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