noun. Any of numerous insects of the order Lepidoptera, generally distinguished from butterflies by their nocturnal activity, hairlike or feathery antennae, stout bodies, and the frenulum that holds the front and back wings together.

noun. A clothes moth.

noun. An obsolete variant of mote.

noun. A nocturnal or crepuscular lepidopterous insect; a member of the order Lepidoptera and suborder Heterocera.

noun. Any larva that destroys woolen fabrics.

noun. Figuratively, one who or that which gradually and silently eats, consumes, or wastes anything.

noun. In India, a trailing dwarf bean, Phaseolus aconitifolius, cultivated for food and fodder. Also called Turkish gram. See gram.

noun. A mote.

noun. Any nocturnal lepidopterous insect, or any not included among the butterflies

noun. Any lepidopterous insect that feeds upon garments, grain, etc.. See these terms under Clothes, Grain, etc.

noun. Any one of various other insects that destroy woolen and fur goods, etc., esp. the larvæ of several species of beetles of the genera Dermestes and Anthrenus. Carpet moths are often the larvæ of Anthrenus. See Carpet beetle, under Carpet, Dermestes, Anthrenus.

noun. Anything which gradually and silently eats, consumes, or wastes any other thing.

noun. any plant louse of the genus Aleurodes, and related genera. They are injurious to various plants.

noun. a dipterous insect of the genus Bychoda, having fringed wings.

noun. the goatsucker.

noun. a clothes moth. See Miller, 3, (a).

noun. a common herb of the genus Verbascum (Verbascum Blattaria), having large wheel-shaped yellow or whitish flowers.

noun. The plant Vigna aconitifolia, known as moth bean.

noun. A usually nocturnal insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from butterflies by feather-like antennae.

verb. To hunt for moths.

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

"The brain of a moth is about the size of a grain of rice."

bee-hawk moth  brown-tailed moth  buffalo moth  butterfly  caterpillar  

mothing  

lepidopteran  lepidopteron  lepidopterous insect  

arctiid  arctiid moth  bombycid  bombycid moth  gelechiid  

Roth  auth  broth  cloth  doth  

ant  bat  beetle  bug  butterfly  

lep  mote  

anthrenus  carpet  clothes  dermestes  grain