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noctuid
[ nok-choo-id, nok-too-id ]
adjective
The caterpillars on these larch trees have a distinctive noctuid appearance.
noun
- Also called noctuid moth, any of numerous, often dull-colored moths of the family Noctuidae, the larvae of which include the armyworms and cutworms, and the adults of which have a distinctively structured metathorax.
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of noctuid1
C19: via New Latin from Latin noctua night owl, from nox night
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Example Sentences
For example, the caterpillars of some species of Xanthia and other noctuid moths feed at first upon willow-catkins.
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For instance Plotheia frontalis, a Noctuid which often abounds in Ceylon, shows an equally bewildering wealth of forms.
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Box turtles probably benefit man by destroying large numbers of crop-damaging insects (locustids and noctuid caterpillars).
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On the whole, members of this family are more available to the day collector than are those of the Noctuid.
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Genitalia of a male Noctuid from below : the parts separated out.
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