Definition of Hawkmoth

1. Noun. Any of various moths with long narrow forewings capable of powerful flight and hovering over flowers to feed.


Definition of Hawkmoth

1. Noun. (entomology) Any of several moths, of the family ''Sphingidae'', that hover over flowers when sucking nectar through a long proboscis. ¹

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Definition of Hawkmoth

1. a large moth [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hawkmoth

hawkeyed
hawkeyes
hawkeys
hawkfish
hawkfishes
hawkie
hawkies
hawking
hawkings
hawkish
hawkishly
hawkishness
hawkishnesses
hawkit
hawklike
hawkmoth (current term)
hawkmoths
hawknose
hawknoses
hawks
hawksbill
hawksbill turtle
hawksbill turtles
hawksbills
hawkshaw
hawkshaws
hawkweed
hawkweeds
hawky
hawleyite

Literary usage of Hawkmoth

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society by Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain) (1901)
"The humming-bird hawkmoth more numerous than I ever remember. Market Weston (E)—16th. Sudden and violent squall from west, with thunder and hail. ..."

2. An Introduction to Entomology: Or Elements of the Natural History of Insects by William Kirby, William Spence (1826)
"So also the silkworm-moth and the hawkmoth of the evening primrose (Sphinx ... Schroeter states, that of sixteen specimens of the death's-head-hawkmoth (S. ..."

3. Biodiversity and the Management of the Madrean Archipelago: The Sky Islands edited by Leonard F. DeBano (1999)
"670 pp. Gomez Pompa, A. 1963. El genero Agave. Cact. Suculent. Mex.8:3-28. Gregory, DP. 1963. hawkmoth pollination in the genus Oenothera. ..."

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