genus acherontia

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   death's-head moth

   SynonymsAcherontia

   Broaderarthropod genus

   Part ofSphingidae

Questions about genus acherontia

What does genus acherontia mean?

genus acherontia means "death's-head moth".

What is another word for genus acherontia?

Close synonyms include Acherontia. 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 genus acherontia a common word?

genus acherontia 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.