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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 905 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MOTH , in See also:

entomology, any lepidopterous See also:insect belonging to the See also:division Heterocera, as distinguished from the Rhopalocera, or butterflies; formerly confined to the small nocturnal insect (belonging to the genus Tinea), which breeds in See also:fur, clothes, &c. (see See also:LEPIDOPTERA). The word in 0 Eng. is moppe, and corresponds to Ger. Motte.

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