moth — English Dictionary

Noun

1. Any flying insect of the order Lepidoptera not in the superfamily Papilionoidea, most species of which are nocturnal and can be distinguished from butterflies by feather-like antennae.

   Examples

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   Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.

2. Anything that gradually and silently eats, consumes, or wastes any other thing.

   Usage

   • Figurative

Verb

1. To hunt for moths.

   Usage

   • Intransitive

   Related words

   butterflycaterpillarworm

Noun

1. A moth bean plant (Vigna aconitifolia).

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

Noun

1. A girlfriend.

   Usage

   • Ireland
   • Slang

Noun

1. A liver spot, especially an irregular or feathery one.

   Usage

   • Dated

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   To remove moth patches, wash the spots with a solution of common bicarbonate of soda and water several times a day, until the patches are removed, which will usually be in forty-eight hours.

   Craves for sour things, chalks and eggs, fatty people with light brown spots on the face or liver spots, moth patches on forehead and cheek.

   There are signs of liver affections as weakness, yellow complexion, liver spots, and moth spot like a saddle over the nose.

Noun

1. typically crepuscular or nocturnal insect having a stout body and feathery or hairlike antennae

   Broader terms

   lepidopterous insectlepidopteronlepidopteran