Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
magpie-moth .
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Examples
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Mr. A.G. Butler also made experiments with some green lizards (Lacerta viridis), which greedily ate all kinds of food, including flies of many kinds, spiders, bees, butterflies, and green caterpillars; but they would not touch the caterpillar of the gooseberry-moth (Abraxas grossulariata), or the imago of the burnet-moth (Anthrocera filipendula).
Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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