Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A member of the family Phalænidæ.
- Having the characters of or belonging to the family Phalænidæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any moth of the family
Phalænidæ , of which the cankerworms are examples; a geometrid.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology Any
moth of thefamily Phalaenidae; ageometrid .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek a kind of moth.
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