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any of various small moths constituting the family Pterophoridae, having long legs and wings divided into narrow, feather-like sections.
a kind of plume moth (not identified).
= plume moth n. at compounds 2.
In the names of butterflies and moths, as chalk carpet, chalk hill blue, chalk pit (see quots.).