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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
ephestia is a noun meaning "small moths whose larvae spin silken tunnels and feed on stored food products". It carries one recorded sense.
small moths whose larvae spin silken tunnels and feed on stored food products
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for ephestia come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.