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lackey moth

noun

a bombycid moth, Malacosoma neustria, whose brightly striped larvae live at first in a communal web often on fruit trees, of which they may become a pest

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Nearby words

  1. lackadaisical,
  2. lackaday,
  3. lackawanna,
  4. lacker,
  5. lackey,
  6. lacking,
  7. lackland air force base,
  8. lackluster,
  9. lacklustre,
  10. laclos
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