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- noun Plural form of
tithymal .
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Examples
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The Pieris, on its part, takes good care not to touch the tithymals: they would endanger its life.
More Hunting Wasps Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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However pressed by hunger, the caterpillar of the Spurge Hawk-moth, which browses on the tithymals, will allow itself to starve in front of a cabbage leaf which makes a peerless meal for the Pieris.
More Hunting Wasps Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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The caterpillar of the Death's-head Hawk-moth, which delights in the solanin of the potato, would be killed by the acrid principle of the tithymals that form the food of the Spurge-caterpillar.
More Hunting Wasps Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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The Spurge Hawk-moth requires the caustic milk-sap of the tithymals: the Corn-weevil the grain of wheat; the Pea-weevil, the seeds of the Leguminosae; the Balaninus (A genus of Beetles including the Acorn-weevil, the Nut-weevil and others.
More Hunting Wasps Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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