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GENUS EACLES

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Imperial moths

Synonyms:

Eacles; genus Eacles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("genus Eacles" is a kind of...):

arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "genus Eacles"):

Eacles imperialis; imperial moth (large American moth having yellow wings with purplish or brownish markings; larvae feed on e.g. maple and pine trees)

Holonyms ("genus Eacles" is a member of...):

family Saturniidae; Saturniidae (important and widely distributed family of moths including some of the largest insects known)

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