Caterpillar
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3 letters

BUG
A minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use

FLY
(baseball) a hit that flies up in the air

CAT
Any of several large cats typically able to roar and living in the wild

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WORM
Any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae

GRUB
Informal terms for a meal

MITE
Any of numerous very small to minute arachnids often infesting animals or plants or stored foods

PUPA
An insect in the inactive stage of development (when it is not feeding) intermediate between larva and adult

TICK
Any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals

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NYMPH
A larva of an insect with incomplete metamorphosis (as the dragonfly or mayfly)

LARVA
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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BEETLE
Insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings

COCOON
Silky envelope spun by the larvae of many insects to protect pupas and by spiders to protect eggs

INSECT
Small air-breathing arthropod

LARVAE

MAGGOT
The larva of the housefly and blowfly commonly found in decaying organic matter

NYMPHA

SPIDER
Predatory arachnid with eight legs, two poison fangs, two feelers, and usually two silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body; they spin silk to make cocoons for eggs or traps for prey

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AURELIA

HEXAPOD
An animal having six feet

TRACTOR
A wheeled vehicle with large wheels; used in farming and other applications

WIGGLER
One who can't stay still (especially a child); "the toddler was a real wiggler on plane trips"

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ARACHNID
Air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs

CHILOPOD

DIPLOPOD

SCORPION
Arachnid of warm dry regions having a long segmented tail ending in a venomous stinger

WRIGGLER
Larva of a mosquito

INCHWORM
Small hairless caterpillar having legs on only its front and rear segments; mostly larvae of moths of the family Geometridae

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BUTTERFLY
Diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings

ARTHROPOD
Invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin

CENTIPEDE
Chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with a pair of legs, the foremost pair being modified as prehensors

CHRYSALIS
Pupa of a moth or butterfly enclosed in a cocoon

MILLEPEDE
Any of numerous herbivorous nonpoisonous arthropods having a cylindrical body of 20 to 100 or more segments most with two pairs of legs

MILLIPEDE
Any of numerous herbivorous nonpoisonous arthropods having a cylindrical body of 20 to 100 or more segments most with two pairs of legs

TARANTULA
Large hairy tropical spider with fangs that can inflict painful but not highly venomous bites

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HARVESTMAN
Spiderlike arachnid with a small rounded body and very long thin legs

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CATERPILLAR
A wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth

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CREEPYCRAWLY

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DADDYLONGLEGS
Spiderlike arachnid with a small rounded body and very long thin legs

MEASURINGWORM
Small hairless caterpillar having legs on only its front and rear segments; mostly larvae of moths of the family Geometridae