caterpillar vs wild wilkworm

wild wilkworm vs caterpillar

caterpillar and wild wilkworm both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
caterpillar	Yes	No	No	No
wild wilkworm	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, wild wilkworm is a hyponym of caterpillar; that is, wild wilkworm 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
wild wilkworm: larva of a saturniid moth; spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon

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, tent caterpillar, lappet caterpillar, webworm, corn borer, Pyrausta nubilalis, bollworm, cabbageworm, Pieris rapae, woolly bear, woolly bear caterpillar.

caterpillar (noun)	wild wilkworm (noun)
a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth	larva of a saturniid moth; spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon

Difference between caterpillar and wild wilkworm

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