antheraea polyphemus

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   very large yellowish-brown American silkworm moth with large eyespots on hind wings; larvae feed on fruit and shade trees

   Synonymspolyphemus moth

   Broadersaturniid

   Part ofAntheraea

Questions about antheraea polyphemus

What does antheraea polyphemus mean?

antheraea polyphemus means "very large yellowish-brown American silkworm moth with large eyespots on hind wings; larvae feed on fruit and shade trees".

What is another word for antheraea polyphemus?

Close synonyms include polyphemus 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 antheraea polyphemus a common word?

antheraea polyphemus 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.