tussock caterpillar

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   larva of a tussock moth

   Broadercaterpillar

   Part ofLymantriidae

Questions about tussock caterpillar

What does tussock caterpillar mean?

tussock caterpillar means "larva of a tussock moth".

Is tussock caterpillar a common word?

tussock caterpillar is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.