moth
English
Etymology 1
Germanic: from Old English moþþe, cognate with Dutch mot, German Motte.
Pronunciation
Singular: moth
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /mɒθ/
Audio (UK) (file) - (General American) enPR: môth, IPA(key): /mɔθ/
- (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /mɑθ/, enPR: mŏth
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɒθ
Plural: moths
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /mɒθs/
- (General American)[1] enPR: môths, môthz, IPA(key): /mɔθs/, /mɔðz/
- (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /mɑθs/, /mɑðz/
- Rhymes: -ɒθs, -ɒðz
Noun
moth (plural moths)
- A usually nocturnal insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from butterflies by feather-like antennae.
- 2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 206-7:
- 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.
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- (figuratively) Anything that gradually and silently eats, consumes, or wastes any other thing.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Terms derived from moth
- acorn moth (Blastobasis glandulella and Cydia splendana)
- ailanthus moth (Hyalophora cecropia)
- almond moth (Cadra cautella)
- almond tree leaf skeletoniser moth, almond tree leaf skeletonizer moth (Aglaope infausta)
- American chestnut moth (Ectoedemia castaneae)
- angoumois moth (Sitotroga cerealella)
- antler moth (Charaeas graminis)
- apple moth*
- arctic woolly bear moth (Gynaephora groenlandica)
- Atlas moth (Attacus atlas)
- autumnal moth (Epirrita autumnata)
- bag moth
- bagworm moth (Psychidae)
- bee moth*
- bell moth (Tortricidae, Archips rosaceana)
- black moth*
- black-arched moth
- bogong moth (Agrotis infusa)
- book moth
- brimstone moth (Opisthograptis luteolata)
- brown-tailed moth, brown-tail moth, browntail moth (Euproctis chrysorrhoea)
- buck moth (Hemileuca maia)
- bud moth (Spilonota ocellana)
- buff-tip moth (Phalera bucephala)
- buffalo moth (Anthrenus, Attagenus)
- bumblebee moth
- burdock seedhead moth (Metzneria lappella)
- burnet companion moth (Euclidia glyphica)
- burnet moth (Zygaenidae)
- cabbage moth (Plutella xylostella)
- cacao moth (Ephestia elutella)
- carpet moth (Tinea pellionella)
- case moth (Coleophoridae)
- cecropia moth (Hyalophora cecropia)
- chocolate moth (Cadra cautella)
- cinnabar moth (Tyria jacobaeae)
- clearwing moth (Sesiidae and Hemaris)
- clothes moth (Tineidae)
- clothing moth*
- codlin moth, codling moth (Cydia pomonella)
- comet moth (Argema mittrei)
- concealer moth (Oecophoridae)
- corn moth (Tinea granella)
- corn borer moth (Pyrausta nubilalis)
- cotton leafworm moth (Alabama argillacea)
- cotton moth (Alabama argillacea)
- cup moth (Limacodidae)
- currant moth (Eupithecia assimilata, Abraxas grossulariata)
- currant-shoot moth (Incurvaria capitella)
- cutworm moth*
- cynthia moth (Samia cynthia)
- dagger moth (Acronicta spp.)
- dart moth
- death's head moth (Acherontia spp.)
- diamond-back moth, diamondback moth (Plutella xylostella)
- dot moth (Melanchra persicariae)
- emperor moth (Saturniinae)
- ermine moth (Yponomeutidae)
- flour moth*
- geometer moth (Geometridae)
- ghost moth (Hepialus humuli, Hepialidae)
- goat moth
- gooseberry-moth
- grass moth
- giant leopard moth
- gipsy moth, gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar)
- hag moth (Phobetron pithecium)
- hawk moth*, hawk-moth, hawkmoth
- honeycomb moth (Galleria mellonella)
- hummingbird moth (Hemaris thysbe)
- imperial moth
- Indian meal moth
- io moth
- kitten moth
- lackey moth
- lappet moth
- leaf roller moth
- leek moth
- leopard moth
- lobster moth
- luna moth
- magpie moth*
- many-plumed moth
- meal moth
- Mediterranean flour moth
- miller moth*
- mint moth
- moth ball, moth-ball, mothball
- moth blight (Aleurodes or Aleurodidae spp.)
- moth borer
- moth-eaten
- mothed
- mothen
- Mother Shipton moth
- moth flower
- moth fly (Psychodidae)
- moth freckle
- moth-fretted
- moth-fretten
- moth gnat (Psychodidae)
- moth hawk (Caprimulgidae)
- moth hunter (Caprimulgidae)
- mothless
- moth-like, mothlike
- moth midge (Psychodidae)
- moth miller
- moth mullein (Verbascum blattaria)
- moth orchid (Phalaenopsis spp.)
- moth patch
- moth plant (Phalaenopsis spp.)
- moth-proof, mothproof
- moth sphinx (Castniidae)
- moth spot
- moth-time
- mothweed
- moth wing
- mothwort
- mothy
- mouse moth
- night moth
- November moth (Epirrita dilutata)
- nun moth
- ochre-winged hag moth (Lithacodes fasciola)
- oriental leafworm moth
- owlet moth
- owl moth
- pale November moth
- Pandora sphinx moth
- pasture day moth (Apina callisto)
- pear leaf blister moth
- peppered moth
- plume moth
- polyphemus moth (Antheraea polyphemus)
- processionary moth
- pug-moth
- puss moth
- rabbit moth
- satin moth
- shipton moth
- short-cloaked moth
- silkmoth*
- silkworm moth
- skiff moth (Prolimacodes badia)
- slug moth (Limacodidae)
- snout moth
- southern flannel moth
- sphinx moth
- summer fruit tortrix moth
- swallow-tailed moth
- swift moth
- tapestry moth (Tinea pellionella)
- tiger moth (Arctiidae)
- tobacco moth (Ephestia elutella)
- turnip moth
- tussock moth (Lymantriinae)
- unicorn moth (Schizura unicornis)
- veneer moth
- vine moth, vine-moth
- wax moth*
- webmoth*
- wheat moth
- winter moth
- witch moth (Thermesiini)
- yellow-shouldered slug moth
- Y moth (Autographa gamma)
- yucca moth (Tegeticula yuccasella)
*Entries with derived terms containing moth
Translations
insect similar to a butterfly
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Verb
moth (third-person singular simple present moths, present participle mothing, simple past and past participle mothed)
- (intransitive) To hunt for moths.
Derived terms
See also
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /məʊt/
- (General American) enPR: mōt, IPA(key): /moʊt/
- Rhymes: -əʊt
Synonyms
- (Vigna aconitifolia): Turkish gram, mat bean, matki
Derived terms
Translations
Vigna aconitifolia
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References
Vigna aconitifolia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Vigna aconitifolia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies Vigna aconitifolia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - moth at USDA Plants database
Noun
moth (plural moths)
- Obsolete form of mote.
- c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act 1, scene 3]:
- So that, dear lords, if I be left behind, / A moth of peace, and he go to the war, / The rites for which I love him are bereft me, / And I a heavy interim shall support / By his dear absence. Let me go with him.
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- (dated) A liver spot, especially an irregular or feathery one.
- 1895, Good Housekeeping, page 196, ISSN: 0731-3462
- 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.
- 1999, R. L. Gupta, Directory of Diseases & Cures: In Homoeopathy, page 254, →ISBN.
- 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.
- 2005, J. D. Patil, Textbook of Applied Materia Medica, page 108, →ISBN.
- There are signs of liver affections as weakness, yellow complexion, liver spots, and moth spot like a saddle over the nose.
- 1895, Good Housekeeping, page 196, ISSN: 0731-3462
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