BROWN-TAIL MOTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brown-tail moth mean? 

• BROWN-TAIL MOTH (noun)
  The noun BROWN-TAIL MOTH has 1 sense:

1. small brown and white European moth introduced into eastern United States; pest of various shade and fruit trees

  Familiarity information: BROWN-TAIL MOTH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BROWN-TAIL MOTH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small brown and white European moth introduced into eastern United States; pest of various shade and fruit trees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

brown-tail moth; browntail; Euproctis phaeorrhoea

Hypernyms ("brown-tail moth" is a kind of...):

lymantriid; tussock moth (dull-colored moth whose larvae have tufts of hair on the body and feed on the leaves of many deciduous trees)

Holonyms ("brown-tail moth" is a member of...):

Euproctis; genus Euproctis (a genus of Lymantriidae)