Definition of saturniidae Saturniidae
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What does saturniidae mean?
WordNet
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| saturniidae - important and widely distributed family of moths including some of the largest insects known | ||
| family Saturniidae | ||
| arthropod family any of the arthropods | ||
| lepidoptera, order lepidoptera moths and butterflies | ||
| saturniid, saturniid moth large brightly colored and usually tropical moth; larvae spin silken cocoons | ||
| genus saturnia, saturnia type genus of the Saturniidae: emperor moth | ||
| eacles, genus eacles imperial moths | ||
| giant silkworm, wild wilkworm, silkworm the commercially bred hairless white caterpillar of the domestic silkworm moth which spins a cocoon that can be processed to yield silk fiber; the principal source of commercial silk | ||
| actias, genus actias luna moths | ||
| genus hyalophora, hyalophora American silkworm moth | ||
| genus samia, samia silkworm moths | ||
| automeris, genus automeris io moth | ||
| antheraea, genus antheraea large moths whose larvae produce silk of high quality | ||
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Part of speech
🔤- saturniidae, noun, singular of saturniidaes.
