| 单词 | plume moth |
| 释义 | > as lemmasplume moth plume moth n. any of various small moths constituting the family Pterophoridae, having long legs and wings divided into narrow, feather-like sections. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Pterophoridae or Alucitidae > member of plume moth1742 privet-fly1753 plume1819 chalk pit1832 1742 H. Baker Microscope made Easy xxxviii. 235 The wing of the little Plume Moth is composed of several distinct quills, like those of Birds. 1898 Amer. Naturalist 32 596 This paper..may serve the purpose of calling attention to our plume-moths or feather-wings. 1945 Rev. Eng. Stud. 21 131 The accounts..of the silver white plume moth, of which Edmund Knyvett made a painting, have the freshness of things described for the first time. 1992 W. T. Parsons & E. G. Cuthbertson Noxious Weeds Austral. 245/1 A pterophorid plume moth, Oidaematophorus beneficus, and a stem-galling trypetid fly, Procecidochares alani, were released. < as lemmas |
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