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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of several small moths whose larvæ devour stored wheat, as the Angoumois grain-moth (Gelechia cercalella), the Indian-meal moth (Ephestia interpunctella), the Mediterranean flour-moth (Ephestia Kühniella), or the wolf-moth (Tinea granella).
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