Applied to other animals in some way resembling wolves. A name for various destructive insect larvæ, esp. that of the wolf-moth, which infests…
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| 释义 | the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Tineidae > tinea granella (grain-moth) (5) wolf1682 Applied to other animals in some way resembling wolves. A name for various destructive insect larvæ, esp. that of the wolf-moth, which infests… corn-moth1766 a species of moth, Tinea granella, the larva of which, called the ‘wolf’, is very destructive to corn. fly-weevil1789 the common grain-moth (Gelechia cerealella) (Cent. Dict.). grain-moth1842 a moth (esp. Tinea granella) whose larvae devour grain in storehouses. wolf-moth1863 (see quot., and cf. 3d). |
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