caterpillar vs tent caterpillar

tent caterpillar vs caterpillar

caterpillar and tent caterpillar both are nouns.

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

As nouns, tent caterpillar is a hyponym of caterpillar; that is, tent caterpillar 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
tent caterpillar: the larvae of moths that build and live in communal silken webs in orchard and shade trees

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, potato worm, tomato hornworm, silkworm, giant silkworm, silkworm, wild wilkworm, lappet caterpillar, webworm, corn borer, Pyrausta nubilalis, bollworm, cabbageworm, Pieris rapae, woolly bear, woolly bear caterpillar.

caterpillar (noun)	tent caterpillar (noun)
a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth	the larvae of moths that build and live in communal silken webs in orchard and shade trees

Difference between caterpillar and tent caterpillar

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