owlet moth

Questions about owlet moth

What does owlet moth mean?

owlet moth means "usually dull-colored medium-sized nocturnal moth; the usually smooth-bodied larvae are destructive agricultural pests".

What is another word for owlet moth?

Close synonyms include noctuid moth, noctuid. 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 owlet moth a common word?

owlet 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.