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To eat or prey upon as a moth eats a garment...
Moth eaten
having holes due to eating by moths or moth larvae of cloth or clothing...
Gypsy moth
A tussock moth Lymantria dispar or Porthetria dispar or Ocneria dispar native of the Old World but accidentally introduced into eastern Massachusetts about 1869 where its caterpillars have done great damage to fruit shade and forest trees of many kinds The male gypsy moth is yellowish brown the female white and larger than the male In both sexes the wings are marked by dark lines and a dark lunule The caterpillars when full grown have a grayish mottled appearance with blue tubercles on the anterior and red tubercles on the posterior part of the body all giving rise to long yellow and black hairs They usually pupate in July and the moth appears in August The eggs are laid on tree trunks rocks etc and hatch in the spring...
Hawk moth
Any moth of the family Sphingidaelig of which there are numerous genera and species They are large handsome moths with long narrow forewings capable of powerful flight and hovering over flowers to feed They fly mostly at twilight and hover about flowers like a humming bird sucking the honey by means of a long slender proboscis The larvaelig are large hairless caterpillars ornamented with green and other bright colors and often with a caudal spine See Sphinx also Tobacco worm and Tomato worm...
Io moth
A large and handsome American moth Hyperchiria Io having a large bright colored spot on each hind wing resembling the spots on the tail of a peacock The larva is covered with prickly hairs which sting like nettles...
Isabella moth
A common American moth Pyrrharctia isabella of an isabella color The larva called woolly bear and hedgehog caterpillar is densely covered with hairs which are black at each end of the body and red in the middle part...
Pernyi moth
A silk producing moth Attacus Pernyi which feeds upon the oak It has been introduced into Europe and America from China...
Plant eating
Eating or subsisting on plants as a plant eating beetle...
Eating house
Eating house, 'eating house' means any place to which the public are admitted and where any kind of food or drink is supplied for consumption on the premises by any person owning, or having any interest in, or managing, such place and includes,-(i) a refreshment room, boarding house or coffee house, or(ii) a shop where any kind of food or drink is supplied to the public for consumption in or near such shop, but does not include a place of public entertainment. [Delhi Police Act, 1978 (34 of 1978), s. 2(h)]...
Eat
To chew and swallow as food to devour said especially of food not liquid as to eat bread...
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