MOTH
\mˈɒθ], \mˈɒθ], \m_ˈɒ_θ]\
Definitions of MOTH
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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Any nocturnal lepidopterous insect, or any not included among the butterflies; as, the luna moth; Io moth; hawk moth.
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Any lepidopterous insect that feeds upon garments, grain, etc.; as, the clothes moth; grain moth; bee moth. See these terms under Clothes, Grain, etc.
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Any one of various other insects that destroy woolen and fur goods, etc., esp. the larvae of several species of beetles of the genera Dermestes and Anthrenus. Carpet moths are often the larvae of Anthrenus. See Carpet beetle, under Carpet, Dermestes, Anthrenus.
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Anything which gradually and silently eats, consumes, or wastes any other thing.
By Oddity Software
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Any nocturnal lepidopterous insect, or any not included among the butterflies; as, the luna moth; Io moth; hawk moth.
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Any lepidopterous insect that feeds upon garments, grain, etc.; as, the clothes moth; grain moth; bee moth. See these terms under Clothes, Grain, etc.
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Any one of various other insects that destroy woolen and fur goods, etc., esp. the larvae of several species of beetles of the genera Dermestes and Anthrenus. Carpet moths are often the larvae of Anthrenus. See Carpet beetle, under Carpet, Dermestes, Anthrenus.
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Anything which gradually and silently eats, consumes, or wastes any other thing.
By Noah Webster.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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An insect which feeds upon cloth, fur, etc.; a four-winged insect somewhat like the butterfly, flying at night.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. A lepidopterous insect, distinguished roughly from a butterfly by not having knobbed antennae, and by flying usually at dusk or at night. 2. Moth-patch.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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A family of insects like butterflies, seen mostly at night: the larva of this insect which gnaws cloth: that which eats away gradually and silently.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A nocturnal insect resembling a butterfiy.
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An insect or larva that destroys woolen fabrics or furs.
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Moth eaten.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A winged insect of several species, somewhat like, and akin to the butterfly, generally seen in the twilight; a worm, the grub of a moth, that breeds in and consumes cloths, &c., laid up from the air; figuratively, that which gradually and silently consumes or eats away anything.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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