Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various moths of the family Lasiocampidae, whose larvae often construct tentlike webs among the branches of trees.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
egger .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any bombycid moth of the genera Eriogaster and Lasiocampa
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any
moth of the family Lasiocampidae.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults; larvae feed on tree foliage and spin egg-shaped cocoons
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Call me not an entomologist, call me a lepidopterist, if you will -- though, really, that is too broad a term for a man who is not so much taken up with moths generally as with the third ring of the antennæ of the great oak-eggar.
Prose Fancies Richard Le Gallienne 1906
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It is noteworthy that in these short-lived insects the male is often provided with elaborate sense-organs which, we may believe, assist him to find a mate with as little delay as possible; the male may-fly has especially complex eyes, while the feelers of the male silk-moth or eggar are comb-like or feathery, the branches bearing thousands of sensory hairs.
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Scarce butterflies found include the high brown fritillary, small eggar and blotched emerald.
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"But the young collector must remember that it does not by any means follow that because he captures a female, say an 'Oak eggar,' on the wing in the evening, he has detected the time of flight of the males.
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