moth
IPA: mˈɔθ
noun
- A usually nocturnal insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from butterflies by feather-like antennae.
- (figurative) Anything that gradually and silently eats, consumes, or wastes any other thing.
- The plant Vigna aconitifolia, moth bean.
- (dated) A liver spot, especially an irregular or feathery one.
- Obsolete form of mote. [A small particle; a speck.]
verb
- (intransitive) To hunt for moths.
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Examples of "moth" in Sentences
- The brain of a moth is about the size of a grain of rice.
- The audience of thirty sat in moth-eaten velvet armchairs covered by blankets.
- The moth is immobilize inside a plastic tube mounted atop the 6-inch-tall wheeled robot.
- Among them the atlas moth is found, measuring from eight to ten inches across its wings.
- Whether their kind possesses the wingspread of a Lucifer or a moth is a question better left to theologians.
- Melanism in the peppered moth is known from breeding experiments to be a standard genetic trait following Mendelian inheritance.
- The Golden language we were sent to analyze -- we call it Moth because there's a chunk in the name that sounds like 'moth' -- that Golden language has vowels and consonants too.
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