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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Any of various dull-colored moths of the family Lymantriidae, the caterpillars of which have tufts of hair along the back and are often destructive to deciduous trees.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Zoöl.) the imago of any tussock caterpillar. They belong to Orgyia, Halecidota, and allied genera.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. dull-colored moth whose larvae have tufts of hair on the body and feed on the leaves of many deciduous trees

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  1. moth

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  1. brown-tail moth
  1. euproctis chrysorrhoea
  1. gypsy moth
  1. gipsy moth
  1. gold-tail moth
  1. lymantria dispar
  1. browntail
  1. euproctis phaeorrhoea

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  1. gypsy moth
  2. brown-tail moth
  1. vaporer-moth
  2. reed-tussock
  1. tussock-moth
  2. tussock-caterpillar
  1. halysidota
  2. tussock caterpillar
  1. willow-moth
  2. tussock

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