ephestia elutella

1. 1.

   small moth whose larvae feed on tobacco and other dried plant products

   Synonymstobacco mothcacao moth

   Broaderpyralid

   Part ofEphestia

Questions about ephestia elutella

What does ephestia elutella mean?

ephestia elutella means "small moth whose larvae feed on tobacco and other dried plant products".

What is another word for ephestia elutella?

Close synonyms include tobacco moth, cacao 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 ephestia elutella a common word?

ephestia elutella 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.