rupsbaan

Definitions of rupsbaan
  1. noun
    a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth
    synonyms: insectelarve, insektelarve, rups, rupsband
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    types:
    zijderups
    the commercially bred hairless white caterpillar of the domestic silkworm moth which spins a cocoon that can be processed to yield silk fiber; the principal source of commercial silk
    zijderups
    larva of a saturniid moth; spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon
    type of:
    larf, larve, masker
    the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose
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