caterpillar vs tomato worm

tomato worm vs caterpillar

caterpillar and tomato worm both are nouns.

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

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

Difference between caterpillar and tomato worm

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