| 单词 | peacock moth |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspeacock moth peacock moth n. (a) any of several small Eurasian geometrid moths of the genus Semiothisa, esp. S. notata, which has pale wings with dark markings; (b) a very large Eurasian saturniid moth, Saturnia pyri, with prominent eye-like markings on the wings (more fully giant peacock moth). ΚΠ 1904 N.E.D. at Peacock sb. Peacock-moth. 1908 R. South Moths Brit. Isles 2nd Ser. 287 The Peacock Moth. 1949 E. W. Teale in Insect World J. H. Fabre viii. 68 The Great Peacock Moth, of whose caterpillar Fabre here writes, is Saturnia pyri (Schiff). It is related to the largest and showiest of American moths. 1958 W. J. Stokoe Caterpillars Brit. Moths (rev. ed.) II. 184 The Peacock Moth... This very local and uncommon species is on the wing in May and June, and again in July and August. 2000 Newsday (Nexis) 28 Apr. 9 A giant Peacock moth, the size of a sparrow, that had the misfortune to become trapped by its proboscis under the wheel of a Spanish bus. < as lemmas |
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