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Mediterranean flour moth

American

noun

a small cosmopolitan moth, Anagasta kuehniella, whose larvae damage stored foodstuffs, as grain and flour.

Etymology

Origin of Mediterranean flour moth

An Americanism dating back to 1890–95

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