gamma moth
noun
: a migratory European noctuid moth (Plusia gamma) having a bright silvery Y-shaped mark on each of the forewings and a larva that feeds on the cabbage and other vegetables
called also silver Y moth
Word History
Etymology
New Latin gamma (specific epithet of Plusia gamma), from Late Latin, third letter of the Greek alphabet; from the likeness in shape of the marks on the forewings to small gammas
First Known Use
1799, in the meaning defined above
- declassify
- declassifying
- declassing
- declaw
- declawed
- declawing
- declaws
- declension
- declensional
- declensions
- declinable
- declinate
- declination
- declination axis
- declination circle
- declination compass
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- declinational
- declinations
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- declinatory plea
- declinature
- declinatures
- decline
- decline (in)