wax moth

Questions about wax moth

What is another word for wax moth?

It depends which wax moth you mean. In the sense “moth whose larvae live in and feed on bee honeycombs”, the synonyms are bee moth, Galleria mellonella. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of wax moth?

WordNet records no antonym for wax moth. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for wax moth come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of wax moth

• Full entry for wax mothAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for wax mothWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.