GENUS ACTIAS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Actias mean? 

• GENUS ACTIAS (noun)
  The noun GENUS ACTIAS has 1 sense:

1. luna moths

  Familiarity information: GENUS ACTIAS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS ACTIAS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Luna moths

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Actias; genus Actias

Hypernyms ("genus Actias" is a kind of...):

arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "genus 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 ("genus Actias" is a member of...):

family Saturniidae; Saturniidae (important and widely distributed family of moths including some of the largest insects known)