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Analogue
noun · 78% connection
A species or genus in one country closely related to a species of the same genus, or a genus of the same group, in another: such speci…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: moth, genus, nonagria, allied, genera.
Borer
noun · 78% connection
One of the larvae of many species of insects, which penetrate trees, as the apple, peach, pine, etc. See Apple borer, under Apple.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: moth, genus, nonagria, allied, genera.
Bractlet
noun · 78% connection
A bract on the stalk of a single flower, which is itself on a main stalk that support several flowers.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: moth, genus, nonagria, allied, genera.
Eggar
noun · 78% connection
Any bombycid moth of the genera Eriogaster and Lasiocampa; as, the oak eggar (L. roboris) of Europe.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: moth, genus, nonagria, allied, genera.
Filefish
noun · 78% connection
Any plectognath fish of the genera Monacanthus, Alutera, balistes, and allied genera; -- so called on account of the roughly granulate…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: moth, genus, nonagria, allied, genera.
Finback
noun · 78% connection
Any whale of the genera Sibbaldius, Balaenoptera, and allied genera, of the family Balaenopteridae, characterized by a prominent fin o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: moth, genus, nonagria, allied, genera.
Gastrocybe lateritia
noun · 78% connection
a species of Gastrocybe fungus that has a conic cap and a thin stalk; at first the stalk is upright but as it matures the stalk bends…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: moth, genus, nonagria, allied, genera.
Generalize
verb · 78% connection
To bring under a genus or under genera; to view in relation to a genus or to genera.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: moth, genus, nonagria, allied, genera.
Globefish
noun · 78% connection
A plectognath fish of the genera Diodon, Tetrodon, and allied genera. The globefishes can suck in water or air and distend the body to…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: moth, genus, nonagria, allied, genera.
Grunt
noun · 78% connection
Any one of several species of American food fishes, of the genus Haemulon, allied to the snappers, as, the black grunt (A. Plumieri),…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: moth, genus, nonagria, allied, genera.
Hag
noun · 78% connection
An eel-like marine marsipobranch (Myxine glutinosa), allied to the lamprey. It has a suctorial mouth, with labial appendages, and a si…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: moth, genus, nonagria, allied, genera.
Hawk moth
unknown · 78% connection
Any moth of the family Sphingidae, of which there are numerous genera and species. They are large, handsome moths, which fly mostly at…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: moth, genus, nonagria, allied, genera.
Hoopoo
noun · 78% connection
A European bird of the genus Upupa (U. epops), having a beautiful crest, which it can erect or depress at pleasure. Called also hoop,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: moth, genus, nonagria, allied, genera.
Inclusa
n. pl. · 78% connection
A tribe of bivalve mollusks, characterized by the closed state of the mantle which envelops the body. The ship borer (Teredo navalis)…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: moth, genus, nonagria, allied, genera.
Jacamar
noun · 78% connection
Any one of numerous species of tropical American birds of the genus Galbula and allied genera. They are allied to the kingfishers, but…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: moth, genus, nonagria, allied, genera.
Lark
noun · 78% connection
Any one numerous species of singing birds of the genus Alauda and allied genera (family Alaudidae). They mostly belong to Europe, Asia…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: moth, genus, nonagria, allied, genera.
Linnet
noun · 78% connection
Any one of several species of fringilline birds of the genera Linota, Acanthis, and allied genera, esp. the common European species (L…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: moth, genus, nonagria, allied, genera.
Loach
noun · 78% connection
Any one of several small, fresh-water, cyprinoid fishes of the genera Cobitis, Nemachilus, and allied genera, having six or more barbu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: moth, genus, nonagria, allied, genera.