English to afrikaans meaning of

'n ruspe is "die langwerpige wurmagtige larwe van 'n skoenlapper of mot." Die term kan ook verwys na soortgelyke larwes van ander insekte, soos saagvlieƫ. Rupes word gekenmerk deur hul sagte liggame, veelvuldige segmente en talle bene.

Sentence Examples

  1. The digger creaked forward on its caterpillar tracks and stopped, halting the track pads only a foot away from the marked area.
  2. Gar agreed, but stated that even butterflies transform, their nature changing as they evolve from a caterpillar, to a cocoon, to a butterfly.
  3. Looking through gaps in the caterpillar tread, she saw the semi had turned off for a truck stop.
  4. I jiggled backwards, feet-first, like a caterpillar, and made it through.
  5. He wrapped his wings around me in a warm embrace, and I felt like a caterpillar preparing for a long, comforting nap before emerging as a beautiful butterfly.
  6. Thus also the snake casts its slough, and the caterpillar its wormy coat, by an internal industry and expansion for clothes are but our outmost cuticle and mortal coil.
  7. Like the butterfly who as an egg, pupa, or caterpillar cannot see where its future will be, we must trust our path and our story.