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caterpillar

noun as in worm

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So far, the companies that have reported having shipments held up range from IKEA to heavy-equipment maker Caterpillar, potentially setting back building construction alongside home-improvement projects.

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The answer was to give the boat retractable caterpillar treads so it can rumble down the beach and into the water without needing to be towed.

Competition can be tough, he adds, because monarch caterpillars are limited in their food options.

If there isn’t enough food from the one plant to feed several caterpillars, “they won’t make it,” he says.

More testing is needed to learn how the different pesticides affect a caterpillar or the adult butterfly, he cautions.

Nearby, a yellow Caterpillar excavator sits idle next to an opening that once led into a cross-border tunnel.

Westport is also working with machinery giant Caterpillar on new locomotives.

Her father worked for Caterpillar and was a member of the United Auto Workers.

Caterpillar notched record profits in 2012 and then in early 2013 bludgeoned its unions into accepting a six-year wage freeze.

“I always try to communicate to our people that we can never make enough money,” as Caterpillar CEO Doug Oberhelman put it.

What of the infinite goodness of God in teaching the grub of the ichneumon-fly to eat up the cabbage caterpillar alive?

The man is as ugly as a caterpillar; but he has done me the most immense service a woman can receive from a man.

The caterpillar produces silk, though it is not equal to that of the better known silkworm.

Grimm has recorded that in old German, the caterpillar was named Alba, and that the Alp often takes the form of a butterfly.

Luther, taking up a caterpillar, said: "'Tis an emblem of the devil in its crawling, and bears his colours in its changing hue."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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