CLOTHES MOTH

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several small yellowish or buff-colored moths whose larvae eat organic matter e.g. woolens

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("clothes moth" is a kind of...):

tineid; tineid moth (small yellowish moths whose larvae feed on wool or fur)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "clothes moth"):

casemaking clothes moth; Tinea pellionella (the larvae live in tubes of its food material fastened with silk that it spins)

Tineola bisselliella; webbing clothes moth; webbing moth (moth that forms a web in which it lives)

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