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Definition of Bombycid moth

1. Noun. Moderate-sized Asiatic moth whose larvae feed on mulberry leaves and produce silk.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bombycid Moth

Literary usage of Bombycid moth

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

1. The Gypsy Moth, Porthetria Dispar (Linn.): A Report of the Work of by Edward Howe Forbush, Charles Henry Fernald (1896)
"... a bombycid moth found in Japan, and also in Siberia. He states that when a fresh male is held in such a manner that the wings can be moved back and ..."

2. Psyche by Cambridge Entomological Club (1893)
"In the Proceedings of the Zoological society of London for the year 1881, p. 142, Prof. Westwood described a large bombycid moth to which he gave the name ..."

3. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario, Entomological Society of Canada (1863-1871) (1883)
"with long slender pencils of black hairs. There is a bombycid moth found in the Eastern States, ..."

4. Journal of the New York Entomological Society by New York Entomological Society (1907)
"Mr. Schaeffer stated that while in Brownsville, Tex., he and Mr. Doll had brought back two or three thousand cocoons of a bombycid moth ..."

5. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1880)
"The remaining instance described by Westwood, that of a single bombycid moth bred from the puparium of a Tachina as well as that described by JW Lea in the ..."

6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"From a single species of bombycid moth, the larvae of which frequently damage forests in Europe to an alarming extent, there have been reared ..."

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