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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tineid moth, Pronuba yuccasella, which, by means of curiously modified mouth-parts, is enabled to pollenize and thus fertilize the ovary of plants of the genus Yucca, causing a development of the seed-pod, in which its larva feeds. Also called
yucca-pollenizer .
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