carpet moth

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   larvae feed on carpets and other woolens

   Synonymstapestry mothTrichophaga tapetzella

   Broadertineid

   Part ofTrichophaga

Questions about carpet moth

What does carpet moth mean?

carpet moth means "larvae feed on carpets and other woolens".

What is another word for carpet moth?

Close synonyms include tapestry moth, Trichophaga tapetzella. 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 carpet moth a common word?

carpet moth 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.