saturniid moth

Questions about saturniid moth

What does saturniid moth mean?

saturniid moth means "large brightly colored and usually tropical moth; larvae spin silken cocoons".

What is another word for saturniid moth?

Close synonyms include saturniid. 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 saturniid moth a common word?

saturniid 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.