moth

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Any flying insect of the order Lepidoptera not in the superfamily Papilionoidea, most species of which are nocturnal and can be distinguished from butterflies by feather-like antennae.

   “Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.”

2. isim Anything that gradually and silently eats, consumes, or wastes any other thing.
3. fiil To hunt for moths.
4. isim A moth bean plant (Vigna aconitifolia).
5. isim A girlfriend.
6. isim Obsolete form of mote.

   “So that, dear lords, if I be left behind, / A moth of peace, and he go to the war, / The rites for which I love him are bereft me, / And I a heavy interim shall support / By his dear absence. Let me go with him.”

7. isim A liver spot, especially an irregular or feathery one.

   “To remove moth patches, wash the spots with a solution of common bicarbonate of soda and water several times a day, until the patches are removed, which will usually be in forty-eight hours.”