privet hawkmoth
noun
A large Palaearctic hawkmoth, Sphinx ligustri, which has black and pinkish bands on the hindwings and abdomen and whose larvae feed on privet and related plants.
Origin
Early 18th century; earliest use found in Eleazar Albin (d.?1742), naturalist and watercolour painter.
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