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Atlas moth   /ˈætləs mɔθ/   Listen
Atlas moth

noun
1.
Giant saturniid moth widespread in Asia; sometimes cultured for silk.  Synonym: Atticus atlas.






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"Atlas moth" Quotes from Famous Books



... dozen little fellows in the school; all naked. They stood up in line, and in a soft musical treble chanted in chorus the glorious promises of the Koran, even while their eyes wandered from the dusky corner where a cheko lizard was struggling with an atlas moth, to the frantic gesticulations of a naked Hindu who was calling his meek-eyed bullocks hard names because they insisted on lying down in the middle of the road for their ...
— Tales of the Malayan Coast - From Penang to the Philippines • Rounsevelle Wildman



Words linked to "Atlas moth" :   Atticus, silkworm moth, genus Atticus, giant silkworm moth



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