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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An ancient Greek measure of length, equivalent to about 6 feet.
  • noun [capitalized] A genus of arctiid moths of the restricted family Liparidæ, the males of which fly by day with a vaporing kind of motion, and hence are called vaporers or vaporer-moths.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • proper noun (Zoöl.) A genus of bombycid moths whose caterpillars (esp. those of Orgyia leucostigma) are often very injurious to fruit trees and shade trees. The female is wingless. Called also vaporer moth.

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