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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A peculiar genus of North American tineid moths, allied to Ochsenheimeria and Hapsifera of the European fauna. X. pruniramiella, the type, feeds as a larva upon the black-knot of the plum (Sphæria morbosa), and the larva of

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