house moth
noun
Any moth that has a tendency to enter buildings and whose larvae damage textiles and are a pest of stored foodstuffs; especially either of two predominantly brownish moths of the family Oecophoridae, Hofmannophila pseudospretella and Endrosis sarcitrella, which has white foreparts.
Origin
Early 19th century; earliest use found in Walter Nicol (d. 1811).
- Darien, Gulf of
- daring
- daringly
- dariole
- dariole mould
- Darius I
- Darjeeling
- Darjiling
- microfiche
- microfiche reader
- microfilament
- microfilamentous
- microfilaria
- microfilm
- microfilmer
- microfilm reader
- microfilm viewer
- microfilter
- microfiltration
- microfinance
- microfine
- microfloppy
- microflora
- microfocus
- microforge