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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A large pale-green North American saturniid moth (Actias luna) with hind wings that have elongated tips.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A large bombycid moth, Actias luna, the most beautiful of North American insects, of a light-green color relieved by luniform eye-spots and by a broad purplish-brown or liliaceous anterior border.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun entomology A large, green American moth, Actias luna, that has crescent-shaped marks on its wings

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun large pale-green American moth with long-tailed hind wings and a yellow crescent-shaped mark on each forewing

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[New Latin lūna, species name, from Latin, moon; see lunar.]

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