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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Linnean term, used in somewhat more than a generic sense, at first for all moths (when the Linnean Lepidoptera were composed of the genera Papilio and Phalæna), subsequently for all moths below the genus Sphinx.
- noun [lowercase] Any moth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A linnæan genus which included the moths in general.
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