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==Naming==
==Naming==
"Ravenous" means "starving", and "Whiskerpillar" is a combination of "whisker" and "caterpillar". Indeed, the creature is always hungry for berries, and looks like a regular real world {{w|caterpillar}}, but with whiskers. Its Japanese name is {{j|ハナゲイモ|Hanageimo}}, where {{j|ハナゲ|hanage}} is Japanese for "nose hair", referring to its whisker-like hairs, and {{j|イモ|imo}} is short for {{j|イモムシ|imomushi}}, which means "hornworm" (the caterpillar of a hawk moth).
"Ravenous" means "starving", and "Whiskerpillar" is a combination of "whisker" and "caterpillar". Indeed, the creature is always hungry for berries, and looks like a regular real world {{w|caterpillar}}, but with whiskers. Its Japanese name is {{j|ハナゲイモ|Hanage Imo}}, where {{j|ハナゲ|hanage}} is Japanese for "nose hair", referring to its whisker-like hairs, and {{j|イモ|imo}} is short for {{j|イモムシ|imomushi}}, which means "hornworm" (the caterpillar of a hawk moth).


The creature's scientific name is ''lepidoptera pluckieus'', where ''lepidoptera'' (being used here as a genus), is the real world order of insects that include moths and butterflies, and ''pluckieus'' being similar to the English word "pluck", perhaps related to how the berries removed from the flower could be considered "plucked". Internally, it is called <code>imomushi</code>, or {{j|いもむし|imomushi}}, which means "caterpillar".
The creature's scientific name is ''Lepidoptera pluckieus'', where ''Lepidoptera'' (being used here as a genus), is the real world order of insects that include moths and butterflies, and ''pluckieus'' being similar to the English word "pluck", perhaps related to how the berries removed from the flower could be considered "plucked". Internally, it is called <code>imomushi</code>, or {{j|いもむし|imomushi}}, which means "caterpillar".


===Names in other languages===
===Names in other languages===
{{foreignname
{{foreignname
|Fra=Verbrisse Vorace
|Jap  = ハナゲイモ
|FraM=Ravenous Whiskerpillar
|JapR = Hanage Imo
|JapM = Nose Hair Catterpillar
|Fra = Verbrisse Vorace
|FraM = Ravenous Whiskerpillar
}}
}}