Meaning

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..

Definitions by Sense

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.
2. (figurative) Anything that gradually and silently eats, consumes, or wastes any other thing.
3. (intransitive) To hunt for moths.
4. A moth bean plant (Vigna aconitifolia).
5. (Ireland, slang) A girlfriend.
6. Obsolete form of mote.
7. (dated) A liver spot, especially an irregular or feathery one.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• moths
• mothing
• mothed

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Use moth when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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