"caterpillar tree" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: caterpillar trees [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} caterpillar tree (plural caterpillar trees)
  1. (graph theory) A tree consisting of only a path (the spine or stalk of the tree) and vertices directly connected to (i.e. one edge away from) that path; a tree whose vertices with a degree of at least 3 are all surrounded by at most two vertices of degree two or greater. Categories (topical): Graph theory
    Sense id: en-caterpillar_tree-en-noun-6AOhn5UM Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 57 43 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 47 53 Topics: graph-theory, mathematics, sciences
  2. Catalpa bignonioides; the southern catalpa, a deciduous tree of family Bignoniaceae growing in Southeastern U.S., which is the host plant for the catawba worms, caterpillars that are popular fishing bait. Categories (lifeform): Bignonia family plants
    Sense id: en-caterpillar_tree-en-noun-IzdnR7kl Disambiguation of Bignonia family plants: 38 62 Categories (other): English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 43 57 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 47 53
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hypernyms: tree

Inflected forms

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