lappet

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
lappet /ˈlapɪt/

▶noun

• 1 a fold or hanging piece of flesh in some animals.

• 2 a loose or overlapping part of a garment.

• 3 (also lappet moth) a brownish moth, the caterpillars of which have fleshy lappets along each side of the body. [Gastropacha quercifolia and other species.]

– derivatives
lappeted adjective.

– origin ME (denoting a lobe of the ear, liver, etc.): dimin. of lap1.