Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name given to the larvæ of certain ichneumonflies, from their being bred in the bodies of caterpillars and eating their way out.
- noun Same as
caterpillar-catcher .
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Examples
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To rear a caterpillar-eater on a skewerful of Spiders is a very innocent thing, unlikely to compromise the security of the State; it is also a very childish thing, as I hasten to confess, and worthy of the schoolboy who, in the mysteries of his desk, seeks as best he may some diversion from the fascinations of his exercise in composition.
More Hunting Wasps Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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