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Hawkmoth

noun

Any of various moths with long narrow forewings capable of powerful flight and hovering over flowers to feed. Synonyms: hawk moth, hummingbird moth, sphingid, sphinx moth.

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"Hawkmoth" Quotes from Famous Books

... varied insect world has its home in the Moor. The large brown hawkmoth darts about like an arrow. Dragon flies of metallic blue, or striped yellow and brown, hover above the lanes of water, lost in admiration of their own gorgeous selves reflected in the still surface. The great water-beetle booms against ...

— The Broom-Squire • S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

Words linked to "Hawkmoth" : moth, Acherontia atropos, family Sphingidae, Manduca quinquemaculata, Manduca sexta, Sphingidae, death's-head moth