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from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a red hump: noting a bombycid moth of the genus Notodonta: as, the red-humped prominent, N. concinna. See cut under
Notodonta .
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Again, late in the summer, when it was time for the yellow-necked caterpillars, the red-humped caterpillars, the tiger caterpillars, and the rest of the hungry crew, to strip the leaves from the orchard, the
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