Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any one of several small moths whose larvæ feed on flour, as the Indian-meal moth, Plodia interpunctella, or the meal snout-moth, Pyralis farinalis.
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Examples
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But his own experimental practice throughout the 1940s led him to stay with the completion of the pathway of eye pigment formation in Ephestia kühniella (the flour-moth).
Gene Rheinberger, Hans-Jörg 2009
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