BROWNTAIL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does browntail mean? 

• BROWNTAIL (noun)
  The noun BROWNTAIL has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: BROWNTAIL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BROWNTAIL (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 ("browntail" 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 ("browntail" is a member of...):

Euproctis; genus Euproctis (a genus of Lymantriidae)