gold-tail moth

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   white furry-bodied European moth with a yellow tail tuft

   SynonymsEuproctis chrysorrhoea

   Broaderlymantriid

   Part ofEuproctis

Questions about gold-tail moth

What does gold-tail moth mean?

gold-tail moth means "white furry-bodied European moth with a yellow tail tuft".

What is another word for gold-tail moth?

Close synonyms include Euproctis chrysorrhoea. 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 gold-tail moth a common word?

gold-tail 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.