单词 | moth |
释义 | moth (once / 971 pages) n WORD FAMILY moth: moths, mothy USAGE EXAMPLESAt night, abundant small insects included midges and other flies, while medium-sized ones includes lacewings and large ones included noctuid moths and hawkmoths. Reuters(Dec 22, 2016) It’s likely that people moving to Washington from the East or Midwest will continue to introduce some of the moths to the state. Washington Times(Dec 17, 2016) The bank started reporting monthly figures on retail banking activity last moth as part of an effort to win back the trust of investors. Reuters(Dec 16, 2016) n typically crepuscular or nocturnal insect having a stout body and feathery or hairlike antennae Hypo|Hyper miller, moth miller any of various moths that have powdery wings tortricid, tortricid mothany of numerous small moths having lightly fringed wings; larvae are leaf rollers or live in fruits and galls lymantriid, tussock mothdull-colored moth whose larvae have tufts of hair on the body and feed on the leaves of many deciduous trees geometrid, geometrid mothslender-bodied broad-winged moth whose larvae are called measuring worms pyralid, pyralid mothusually tropical slender-bodied long-legged moth whose larvae are crop pests tineoid, tineoid mothsmall dull-colored moth with chewing mouthparts gelechiid, gelechiid mothsmall slender-winged moths whose larvae are agricultural pests noctuid, noctuid moth, owlet mothusually dull-colored medium-sized nocturnal moth; the usually smooth-bodied larvae are destructive agricultural pests hawk moth, hawkmoth, hummingbird moth, sphingid, sphinx mothany of various moths with long narrow forewings capable of powerful flight and hovering over flowers to feed bombycid, bombycid moth, silkworm mothmoderate-sized Asiatic moth whose larvae feed on mulberry leaves and produce silk saturniid, saturniid mothlarge brightly colored and usually tropical moth; larvae spin silken cocoons arctiid, arctiid mothstout-bodied broad-winged moth with conspicuously striped or spotted wings; larvae are hairy caterpillars lasiocampid, lasiocampid mothmedium-sized stout-bodied neutral-colored moths with comb-like antennae Malacosoma americana, tent-caterpillar mothmoth whose larvae are tent caterpillars leaf roller, leaf-rollermoth whose larvae form nests by rolling and tying leaves with spun silk Homona coffearia, tea tortrix, tortrixsmall Indian moth infesting e.g. tea and coffee plants Argyrotaenia citrana, orange tortrix, tortrixCalifornia moth whose larvae live in especially oranges Carpocapsa pomonella, codlin moth, codling motha small grey moth whose larvae live in apples and English walnuts Lymantria dispar, gipsy moth, gypsy mothEuropean moth introduced into North America; a serious pest of shade trees Euproctis phaeorrhoea, brown-tail moth, browntailsmall brown and white European moth introduced into eastern United States; pest of various shade and fruit trees Euproctis chrysorrhoea, gold-tail mothwhite furry-bodied European moth with a yellow tail tuft Paleacrita vernatamoth whose larvae are spring cankerworms Alsophila pometariaNorth American moth with grey-winged males and wingless females; larvae are fall cankerworms Galleria mellonella, bee moth, wax mothmoth whose larvae live in and feed on bee honeycombs European corn borer moth, Pyrausta nubilalis, corn borer, corn borer mothnative to Europe; in America the larvae bore into the stem and crown of corn and other plants Anagasta kuehniella, Mediterranean flour mothsmall moth whose larvae damage stored grain and flour Ephestia elutella, cacao moth, tobacco mothsmall moth whose larvae feed on tobacco and other dried plant products Cadra cautella, almond moth, fig motha moth whose larvae feed on and mat together with webbing various stored products of vegetable origin Cadra figulilella, raisin mothmoth whose larvae attack dried fruits and cereal products tineid, tineid mothsmall yellowish moths whose larvae feed on wool or fur gracilariid, gracilariid mothsmall dull or metallic-colored tineoid moths whose larvae mine in plant leaves Gelechia gossypiellasmall brown moth whose larvae bore into flowers and bolls of cotton grain mothmoth whose larvae feed on grain Phthorimaea operculella, potato moth, potato tuber moth, splitwormgreyish-brown moth whose larva is the potato tuberworm underwingmoth having dull forewings and brightly colored hind wings Cerapteryx graminis, antler mothEuropean moth with white antler-like markings on the forewings; the larvae damage pastures and grasslands Heliothis zia, heliothis mothmedium-sized moth whose larvae are corn earworms Pseudaletia unipuncta, armywormmoth whose destructive larvae travel in multitudes Spodoptera exiguamoth whose larvae are beet armyworms Spodoptera frugiperdamoth whose larvae are fall armyworms Manduca sextamoth whose larvae are tobacco hornworms Manduca quinquemaculatamoth whose larvae are tomato hornworms Acherontia atropos, death's-head mothEuropean hawkmoth with markings on the back resembling a human skull Bombyx mori, domestic silkworm moth, domesticated silkworm mothstocky creamy-white Asiatic moth found almost entirely under human care; the source of most of the silk commerce Saturnia pavonia, emperor, emperor mothlarge moth of temperate forests of Eurasia having heavily scaled transparent wings Eacles imperialis, imperial mothlarge American moth having yellow wings with purplish or brownish markings; larvae feed on e.g. maple and pine trees giant silkworm moth, silkworm mothany silkworm moth of the family Saturniidae Actias luna, luna mothlarge pale-green American moth with long-tailed hind wings and a yellow crescent-shaped mark on each forewing Hyalophora cecropia, cecropia, cecropia mothNorth American silkworm moth; larvae feed on the leaves of forest trees Automeris io, io mothlarge yellow American moth having a large eyelike spot on each hind wing; the larvae have stinging spines Antheraea polyphemus, polyphemus mothvery large yellowish-brown American silkworm moth with large eyespots on hind wings; larvae feed on fruit and shade trees Antheraea pernyi, pernyi motha Chinese moth that produces a brownish silk Antheraea mylitta, tussah, tusseh, tusser, tussore, tussuroriental moth that produces brownish silk tiger mothmedium-sized moth with long richly colored and intricately patterned wings; larvae are called woolly bears Callimorpha jacobeae, cinnabar, cinnabar mothlarge red-and-black European moth; larvae feed on leaves of ragwort; introduced into United States to control ragwort eggar, eggermoth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults; larvae feed on tree foliage and spin egg-shaped cocoons Malacosoma disstria, tent-caterpillar mothmoth whose gregarious larvae spin webs resembling carpets lappet, lappet mothmedium-sized hairy moths; larvae are lappet caterpillars webworm motha variety of moth that spins a web in which it lives lepidopteran, lepidopteron, lepidopterous insect insect that in the adult state has four wings more or less covered with tiny scales |
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