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stick-caterpillar

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Any one of the twig-like or stick-like geometrid larvæ.

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  • a stick-caterpillar, the immobility of a bird on its nest, and countless other cases, though superficially so different, agree in this, that they conceal and thereby protect the organism.

    Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889

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