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CLOTHES MOTH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does clothes moth mean?
• CLOTHES MOTH (noun)
The noun CLOTHES MOTH has 1 sense:
1. any of several small yellowish or buff-colored moths whose larvae eat organic matter e.g. woolens
Familiarity information: CLOTHES MOTH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several small yellowish or buff-colored moths whose larvae eat organic matter e.g. woolens
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("clothes moth" is a kind of...):
tineid; tineid moth (small yellowish moths whose larvae feed on wool or fur)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "clothes moth"):
casemaking clothes moth; Tinea pellionella (the larvae live in tubes of its food material fastened with silk that it spins)
Tineola bisselliella; webbing clothes moth; webbing moth (moth that forms a web in which it lives)
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