| 单词 | emperor moth |
| 释义 | > as lemmasemperor moth emperor moth n. a large grey-brown Eurasian moth, Saturnia pavonia (family Saturniidae), with eyespots on all four wings; (frequently with distinguishing word) any of various other large moths of the family Saturniidae; cf. sense 3b. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Saturniidae > saturnia pavonia minor or emperor-moth emperor1742 emperor moth1742 1742 B. Wilkes Twelve New Designs Eng. Butterflies Pl. 4 (caption) The Emperour Moth. 1819 D. B. Warden Statist., Polit. & Hist. Acct. U.S. II. xxv. 484 The brown corn skipper butterfly, (Papilio alcyus), and the corn emperor moth, (Phalæna io), unfold themselves in the crysalis state, in the leaves and blade of the Indian corn. 1966 C. Sweeney Scurrying Bush i. 17 Enormous bat-like emperor moths, with vivid, eyed roundels on the patterned forewings. 2006 J. T. Costa Other Insect Societies xvii. 536 A better-studied species is Imbrasia belina (Westwood), the anomalous emperor moth, the social caterpillar of which constitutes an important food source in Botswana and Zimbabwe. < as lemmas |
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