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# moth

«moth» in Mova's school dictionary: **An insect like a butterfly, usually with dull brown or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a moth, moths)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An insect like a butterfly, usually with dull brown or grey wings, that mostly flies at night and is drawn to lights. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moth/#m1)

2) A small moth whose young (larvae) eat holes in wool clothes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moth/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science, moths and butterflies are insects with four wings and a life cycle: egg, caterpillar, pupa (cocoon), adult. Most moths fly at night and rest with wings flat; many feed on nectar and are pollinators. Phrases: «like a moth to a flame», «moth-eaten».

### examples

- A moth flew around the lamp. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moth/#x1)
- Moths are attracted to light at night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moth/#x2)
- The caterpillar turned into a moth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moth/#x3)
- Moths ate holes in Grandpa's wool jumper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moth/#x4)
- Some moths are as colourful as butterflies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moth/#x5)
- Moths help pollinate flowers at night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moth/#x6)
- For they saw at once that it was the great white Arctic moth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moth/#x7)

### note

Countable: moths. Not «mouth»: one letter different. Myth: moths are not harmful to people; only some larvae eat clothes.

### In the corpora

- [Green algae grow in sloth fur and give camouflage among leaves, and moths live in the fur too.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/142-zootopia-real-sloths-shrews-predators-and-prey/8/)
- [Three-toed sloths come down to the ground about once a week to poo, and algae and moths live in their fur.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/156-the-amazon-canopy/10/)
- [Many moths rest still on trees looking like bark, and when factory soot darkened trees, dark moths survived better than pale ones.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/189-masters-of-camouflage/11/)
- [Only the caterpillars of a few kinds of moth eat wool clothes; most moths never touch clothes at all.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/219-butterflies-moths-and-ladybirds/10/)
- [A moth's caterpillar often makes a silk cocoon before it changes, but a butterfly's caterpillar makes a bare chrysalis.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/219-butterflies-moths-and-ladybirds/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «moth» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moth/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.