Any of several small nocturnal insects that attack fabrics; a clothes moth (either the fabric-eating larva or the drab, winged adult).
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| 释义 | the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Tineidae > clothes-moth (8) mothOE Any of several small nocturnal insects that attack fabrics; a clothes moth (either the fabric-eating larva or the drab, winged adult). moch1637 A moth; esp. a clothes moth. Also: a woodworm. Also in extended use. clothes-moth1753 A small moth, infesting houses, the larva of which is very destructive to woollen fabrics, feathers, furs, etc., on which it feeds, and of which… tapestry-moth1815 a species of clothes-moth, as Tinea tapetzella; cf. carpet-moth n. at carpet, n. compounds 1e. Subcategories:— anacampsis sarcitella (1) — tinea sarcitella (1) — trichophaga tapetzella (1) — tinea pellionella (fur-moth) (1) |
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