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Tiger Moth

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Noun

1. tiger moth

medium-sized moth with long richly colored and intricately patterned wings; larvae are called woolly bears

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Tiger Moth

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noun
any of a group of arctiid moths, mostly boldly marked, often in black, orange, and yellow, of the genera Arctia, Parasemia, Euplagia, etc, producing woolly bear larvae and typified by the garden tiger (Arctia caja)
. Often shortened to: tiger

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Tiger Moth

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any of a family (Arctiidae) of stout-bodied moths with brightly striped or spotted wings: the caterpillars (woolly bears) have a dense coat of fine hairs

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Tiger Moth

see synonyms of tiger moth
n.
Any of numerous, often brightly colored moths of the family Arctiidae, characteristically having wings marked with spots or stripes.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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