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eggar

eggar

9.9
A moth whose caterpillars eat tree leaves and make cocoons shaped like eggs
  • noun
  • Specialized
: eggar
  • The garden was filled with colorful moths, including the eggar, fluttering around the foliage.

Examples

  • - [Eggar]

    The Dark Military (2019)

  • There was Adger Eggar in his black Chevrolet and Bill Johnson in the little Ford with the rumble seat.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • The eggar is a type of moth that spins a distinctive egg-shaped cocoon.

  • During summer, we often see eggars feeding on the leaves of our oak trees.

Synonyms

egger
vseggar
  • Specialized
1 9.9

A moth whose caterpillars eat tree leaves and make egg-shaped cocoons

has identical meaning but represents an alternative spelling form

Surface Forms

eggar singular
eggars plural

Morphology

eggar = egg (opaque) = egg + ar

Although the form shows 'egg' + '-ar', the meaning 'a moth' is not derivable by a typical learner from 'egg' alone.

Etymology

The word eggar comes from the simple word egg because the moth's caterpillar spins an 'egg-shaped' cocoon. So the insect is named for the egg-like shape of its cocoon.