tobacco moth

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   small moth whose larvae feed on tobacco and other dried plant products

   Synonymscacao mothEphestia elutella

   Broaderpyralid

   Part ofEphestia

Questions about tobacco moth

What does tobacco moth mean?

tobacco moth means "small moth whose larvae feed on tobacco and other dried plant products".

What is another word for tobacco moth?

Close synonyms include cacao moth, Ephestia elutella. 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 tobacco moth a common word?

tobacco 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.