moth
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
moth/mɒθ/
▶noun a chiefly nocturnal insect having two pairs of broad wings covered in microscopic scales, typically drably coloured and held flat when at rest, and lacking the clubbed antennae of butterflies. [Most superfamilies of the order Lepidoptera.]
– origin OE moththe, of Gmc origin.
'moth' also found in these Oxford entries:
angle shades
- army worm
- atlas moth
- bagworm
- bollworm
- brimstone moth
- budworm
- burnet
- caddis
- cankerworm
- caterpillar
- cecropia
- chrysalis
- cinnabar
- clearwing
- Clifden nonpareil
- clothes moth
- codling moth
- cutworm
- drinker
- eggar
- emerald
- emperor moth
- ermine
- eyespot
- forester
- geometer
- geometrid
- goat moth
- gypsy moth
- hawkmoth
- herald
- hooktip
- jumping bean
- lackey
- lappet
- leaf miner
- leaf roller
- lobster moth
- looper
- luna moth
- magpie moth
- minor
- moth-eaten
- noctuid
- old lady
- owlet
- pine beauty
- plume moth
