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MOTH , in See also:

ENTOMOLOGY (Gr. iv-roµa, insects, and Xiryos, a discourse)

entomology, any lepidopterous See also:

INSECT

insect belonging to the See also:

DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

division Heterocera, as distinguished from the Rhopalocera, or butterflies; formerly confined to the small nocturnal insect (belonging to the genus Tinea), which breeds in See also:

FUR (connected with O. Fr. forre, a sheath or case; so " an outer covering ")

fur, clothes, &c . (see See also:

LEPIDOPTERA (Gr. ?emir, a scale or husk, and 7rrepov, a wing)

LEPIDOPTERA) . The word in 0 Eng. is moppe, and corresponds to Ger . Motte .

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