GENUS ACTIAS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Luna moths

Synonyms:

Actias; genus Actias

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("genus Actias" is a kind of...):

arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "genus Actias"):

Actias luna; luna moth (large pale-green American moth with long-tailed hind wings and a yellow crescent-shaped mark on each forewing)

Holonyms ("genus Actias" is a member of...):

family Saturniidae; Saturniidae (important and widely distributed family of moths including some of the largest insects known)