Definition of moth

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Moth (n.) Anything which gradually and silently eats, consumes, or wastes any other thing..

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Moth-eat :: Moth-eat (v. t.) To eat or prey upon, as a moth eats a garment..
Grandmotherly :: Grandmotherly (a.) Like a grandmother in age or manner; kind; indulgent.
Pneumotherapy :: Pneumotherapy (n.) The treatment of disease by inhalations of compressed or rarefied air.
Fertilizer :: Fertilizer (n.) One who fertilizes; the agent that carries the fertilizing principle, as a moth to an orchid..
Saddleback :: Saddleback (n.) The larva of a bombycid moth (Empretia stimulea) which has a large, bright green, saddle-shaped patch of color on the back..
Tinea :: Tinea (n.) A genus of small Lepidoptera, including the clothes moths and carpet moths..
Cosmothetic :: Cosmothetic (a.) Assuming or positing the actual existence or reality of the physical or external world.
Smotheriness :: Smotheriness (n.) The quality or state of being smothery.
Mother-naked :: Mother-naked (a.) Naked as when born.
Brine :: Brine (n.) Water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; pickle; hence, any strong saline solution; also, the saline residue or strong mother liquor resulting from the evaporation of natural or artificial waters..
Phleum :: Phleum (n.) A genus of grasses, including the timothy (Phleum pratense), which is highly valued for hay; cat's-tail grass..
Mamma :: Mamma (n.) Mother; -- word of tenderness and familiarity.
Geometer :: Geometer (n.) Any species of geometrid moth; a geometrid.
Pyopneumothorax :: Pyopneumothorax (n.) Accumulation of air, or other gas, and of pus, in the pleural cavity..
Aunt :: Aunt (n.) The sister of one's father or mother; -- correlative to nephew or niece. Also applied to an uncle's wife.
Tortrix :: Tortrix (n.) Any one of numerous species of small moths of the family Tortricidae, the larvae of which usually roll up the leaves of plants on which they live; -- also called leaf roller..
Microlepidoptera :: Microlepidoptera (n. pl.) A tribe of Lepidoptera, including a vast number of minute species, as the plume moth, clothes moth, etc..
Smoulder :: Smoulder (n.) Smoke; smother.
Dam :: Dam (n.) A female parent; -- used of beasts, especially of quadrupeds; sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother..
Smeared :: Smeared (a.) Having the color mark ings ill defined, as if rubbed; as, the smeared dagger moth (Apatela oblinita)..
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