malacosoma disstria

Questions about malacosoma disstria

What does malacosoma disstria mean?

malacosoma disstria means "larvae of a gregarious North American moth that spins a web resembling a carpet rather than a tent; serious defoliator of deciduous trees". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for malacosoma disstria?

Close synonyms include forest tent caterpillar, tent-caterpillar 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 malacosoma disstria a common word?

malacosoma disstria 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.