Definition of "yellow-necked" []

• Having the neck yellow: as, the yellow-necked caterpillar, the larva of a common North American bombycid moth, Datana ministra, which feeds in communities on the foliage of apple, hickory, and walnut in the United States.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Again, late in the summer, when it was time for the yellow-necked caterpillars, the red-humped caterpillars, the tiger caterpillars, and the rest of the hungry crew, to strip the leaves from the orchard, the"
• "He hadn't said a word that damned yellow-necked, hen-headed chaplain's wife couldn't have heard and welcome."
• "So still the young man sat, that a mother-goose, with stately cross-footed waddle, brought her six yellow-necked grey-backed goslings to strop their little beaks against the grass blades at his feet."