WEBWORM MOTH

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Meaning:

A variety of moth that spins a web in which it lives

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("webworm moth" is a kind of...):

lasiocampid; lasiocampid moth (medium-sized stout-bodied neutral-colored moths with comb-like antennae)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "webworm moth"):

Hyphantria cunea (moth whose larvae are fall webworms)

Loxostege similalis (moth whose larvae are garden webworms)

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