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ACTIAS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Actias mean?
• ACTIAS (noun)
The noun ACTIAS has 1 sense:
1. luna moths
Familiarity information: ACTIAS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Luna moths
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Actias; genus Actias
Hypernyms ("Actias" is a kind of...):
arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)
Meronyms (members of "Actias"):
Actias luna; luna moth (large pale-green American moth with long-tailed hind wings and a yellow crescent-shaped mark on each forewing)
Holonyms ("Actias" is a member of...):
family Saturniidae; Saturniidae (important and widely distributed family of moths including some of the largest insects known)
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