Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
Ääntäminen
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- RP:
- Tuntematon aksentti:
- cot-caught:
- Canada:
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Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- A usually nocturnal insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from butterflies by feather-like antennae.
- The plant Vigna aconitifolia, moth bean.
- (dated) A liver spot, especially an irregular or feathery one.
- (figurative) Anything that gradually and silently eats, consumes, or wastes any other thing.
Verbit
- (intransitive) To hunt for moths.
Esimerkit
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Craves for sour things, chalks and eggs, fatty people with light brown spots on the face or liver spots, moth patches on forehead and cheek.
- There are signs of liver affections as weakness, yellow complexion, liver spots, and moth spot like a saddle over the nose.
Taivutusmuodot