caterpillarize

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English

Etymology

From caterpillar +‎ -ize.

Verb

caterpillarize (third-person singular simple present caterpillarizes, present participle caterpillarizing, simple past and past participle caterpillarized)

  1. (mathematics, transitive) To visualize (a tree) as a group of subtrees.