| 单词 | house moth |
| 释义 | > as lemmashouse moth house moth n. any moth that has a tendency to enter buildings and whose larvae damage textiles and are a pest of stored foodstuffs; esp. either of two predominantly brownish moths of the family Oecophoridae, Hofmannophila pseudospretella and Endrosis sarcitrella, which has white foreparts. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Oecophoridae > member of (house moth) house moth1810 1810 W. Nicol Gardener's Kalendar 232 The moth is not unlike the common house-moth. 1932 Entomologist's Monthly Mag. 68 77 (title) Borkhausenia pseudospretella and other house moths. 1966 J. R. Busvine Insects & Hygiene (ed. 2) xiii. 354 The house moths are probably species which originated as feeders on dry vegetable matter and have become adapted to dry animal remains. 1995 Independent 25 Apr. 13/1 There are two guilty parties—the house moth and the clothes moth—but..it is their grubs that actually do the eating of fibres. < as lemmas |
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