单词 | brown-tail moth |
释义 | brown-tail moth[ broun-teyl ] / ˈbraʊnˌteɪl / nouna white moth, Nygmia phaerrhoea, having a brown tuft at the end of the abdomen, the larvae of which feed on the foliage of various shade and fruit trees. Also called browntail . Origin of brown-tail mothFirst recorded in 1775–85 Words nearby brown-tail mothbrown study, brown study, in a, brown sugar, Brownsville, Brown Swiss, brown-tail moth, brown thrasher, brown toast, brown trout, Brown versus Board of Education, brown water Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for brown-tail mothbrown-tail moth nouna small brown-and-white European moth, Euproctis phaeorrhoea, naturalized in the eastern US where it causes damage to shade trees: family Lymantriidae (or Liparidae)See also tussock moth Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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