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Definition of Hawkmoth
1. Noun. Any of various moths with long narrow forewings capable of powerful flight and hovering over flowers to feed.
Generic synonyms: Moth
Group relationships: Family Sphingidae, Sphingidae
Specialized synonyms: Manduca Sexta, Manduca Quinquemaculata, Acherontia Atropos, Death's-head Moth
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
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hawkmoth
1. a large moth [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hawkmoth
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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