puriri moth
noun
A large green moth, Aenetus virescens (family Hepialidae), whose larvae bore into the wood of the puriri and certain other trees.
Origin
Early 20th century.
- short temper
- short-tempered
- short tennis
- short-term
- short-termer
- short-termism
- short-term memory
- short time
- short-timer
- short title
- short ton
- short-track
- short trousers
- short view
- short waist
- short-waisted
- short wave
- short weight
- short-winded
- shorty
- Shoshone
- Shoshonean
- Shostakovich, Dmitri
- shot
- shot-blast