actias luna

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   large pale-green American moth with long-tailed hind wings and a yellow crescent-shaped mark on each forewing

   Synonymsluna moth

   Broadersaturniid

   Part ofActias

Questions about actias luna

What does actias luna mean?

actias luna means "large pale-green American moth with long-tailed hind wings and a yellow crescent-shaped mark on each forewing".

What is another word for actias luna?

Close synonyms include luna moth. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is actias luna a common word?

actias luna is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.