plural of hickory horned devil

A Citheronia regalis moth in its caterpillar stage.

(idiomatic) Seemingly hidden, but actually not hidden and easy to find.

(taxation) A tax that is not visible to the consumer at the point of retail, having been levied on intermediate products, such as inputs to a finished product, or outputs from raw material production.

A common hickory found in the eastern USA and in southern Canada, Carya ovata

(idiomatic) To be unnoticeable, by staying visible in a setting that masks presence.

(Internet) A proxy that hides the complexity of and controls access to a complex set of classes.

(idiomatic, slang, humorous, euphemistic) To have sex (where a penis is involved).

(software, object-oriented programming) Synonym of information hiding

(software, object-oriented programming) The technique to hide information so that it is invisible from the outside of an object. (It is a principle of segregation of design decisions that are most likely to change, so that other parts of the program are protected from extensive modification.)