GENUS EACLES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Eacles mean? 

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

1. imperial moths

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS EACLES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Imperial moths

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Eacles; genus Eacles

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

arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "genus Eacles"):

Eacles imperialis; imperial moth (large American moth having yellow wings with purplish or brownish markings; larvae feed on e.g. maple and pine trees)

Holonyms ("genus Eacles" is a member of...):

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