BROWN-TAIL MOTH

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Meaning:

Small brown and white European moth introduced into eastern United States; pest of various shade and fruit trees

Synonyms:

brown-tail moth; browntail; Euproctis phaeorrhoea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("brown-tail moth" is a kind of...):

lymantriid; tussock moth (dull-colored moth whose larvae have tufts of hair on the body and feed on the leaves of many deciduous trees)

Holonyms ("brown-tail moth" is a member of...):

Euproctis; genus Euproctis (a genus of Lymantriidae)

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