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Why are caterpillers called caterpillers?

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∙ 15y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

According to the Noah Webster's Dictionary, the etymology of the word "caterpillar," is uncertain. Something you can get from it though is: the word "pillar", meaning a cylinder shaped column, is in "caterpillar", and as you know, a caterpillar is a little tube shaped guy.

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