moth

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /mɒθ/    美 /mɔθ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any flying insect of the order Lepidoptera not in the superfamily Papilionoidea, most species of which are nocturnal and can be distinguished from butterflies by feather-like antennae.
    — Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.
  2. A moth bean plant (Vigna aconitifolia). countable,uncountable
  3. A girlfriend. Ireland,slang
  4. Obsolete form of mote. alt-of,obsolete
    — So that, dear lords, if I be left behind, / A moth of peace, and he go to the war, / The rites for which I love him are bereft me, / And I a heavy interim shall support / By his dear absence. Let me go with him.
  5. Anything that gradually and silently eats, consumes, or wastes any other thing. figuratively
  6. A liver spot, especially an irregular or feathery one. dated
    — To remove moth patches, wash the spots with a solution of common bicarbonate of soda and water several times a day, until the patches are removed, which will usually be in forty-eight hours.
动词 v.
  1. To hunt for moths. intransitive

词形变化

moths plural moths present,singular,third-person mothing participle,present mothed participle,past mothed past moths plural moths plural moths plural

词汇关系

上位词
lep lepidopter lepidopteran
衍生词
bagmoth budmoth fishmoth like a moth to a flame like a moth to flame like a moth to the flame macromoth micromoth mothball moth-ball moth ball moth blight moth borer moth butterfly moth-eaten mothed moth-er mother#Etymology 5 moth flower moth fly* moth freckle moth-fretted, moth-fretten moth gnat* moth hawk* moth-hunter moth hunter* mothicide moth lacewing mothless mothlike moth-like Mothman moth midge* moth miller moth mullein moth orchid* moth patch moth plant* mothproof, moth-proof moth sphinx* moth spot moth-time mothweed mothwing moth wing mothwort mothy

词源

词源 1
From Middle English moth, moththe, motthe, moght, mohþe, mouȝte, from Old English moþþe, mohþe, mohþa (“any destructive insect larva”), from Proto-West Germanic *moþþō, *mottō, from Proto-Germanic *muþþô, *muttô (“moth, worm”), from Proto-Indo-European *mutn-, *mut- (“worm”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Motte (“moth”), West Frisian mot (“moth”), Dutch mot (“moth”), German Low German Motte, Mott (“moth”), German Motte (“moth”), Swedish mott (“moth”) and Norwegian Nynorsk mott (“moth”).
词源 2
From Hindi मोठ (moṭh); see moth bean.
词源 3
Alternative form of mot (“woman; wife”), likely under influence from Irish maith (“goodness”).
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