| 单词 | nun moth |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnun moth 6. More fully nun moth. A tussock moth, Lymantria monacha, whose caterpillar is a pest of Eurasian forests. Also called black arches. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > unspecified and miscellaneous types > unspecified paper-moth1699 arch1766 moth1802 nun1832 runic1832 vulture-feather1832 wormwood1832 buff-tip1836 1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 96 The Nun... Wings one inch one-twelfth. 1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 14 Aug. 4/3 The devastating moth, known as the ‘nun’, has made its appearance in north and west Germany. 1924 Amer. Naturalist 58 132 In France the nun moth lives almost exclusively on oak, but feeds on pine in Germany. 1974 Sci. Amer. July 35/1 The gypsy moth is a destructive forest pest in large parts of the eastern U.S. and in some parts of Europe... The closest kin of this species is the nun moth. 1994 New Scientist 12 Nov. 26/1 The forests around Warsaw, Katowice and Toruń had been infested by caterpillars of the nun moth (Lymantria monacha). < as lemmas |
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