Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| adonis | a beautiful blue butterfly. |
| aphrodite | a kind of butterfly. |
| apollo | a large tropical butterfly > APOLLOS. |
| arctiid | a moth of the Arctiidae family. |
| argus | a butterfly with many eye-spots on its wings > ARGUSES. |
| armyworm | the larva of a small moth that moves in large armies destroying crops. |
| aweto awato awhato awheto | the so-called vegetable caterpillar of New Zealand. |
| bagworm | one of several lepidopterous insects which construct, in the larval state, a baglike case which they carry about for protection. |
| birdwing | a large tropical butterfly. |
| bobowler | a type of large moth. |
| bogong bugong | a noctuid moth eaten by Australian aborigines. |
| bollworm | the larva of a moth which devours the bolls or unripe pods of the cotton plant. |
| bombycid bombycoid | like or pertaining to the genus Bombyx, silkworms. |
| bombyx | a moth of the genus Bombyx, which includes the silkworm moth. |
| brimstone | a yellow butterfly. |
| browntail | as in browntail moth, a kind of moth. No —S. |
| budworm | a moth larva that feeds on plant buds. |
| burnet | a moth of the genus Zygaena, having red-spotted wings. |
| butterfly | can be a verb: to split almost entirely and spread apart e.g. a steak. |
| cabbageworm | the larva of the cabbage butterfly. |
| cactoblastis | a moth introduced into Australia as a biolgical control for the prickly pear > CACTOBLASTES. |
| cankerworm | the larva of two species of geometrid moths which are very injurious to fruit and shade trees by eating, and often entirely destroying, the foliage. |
| cardinal | a S. European butterfly. |
| caterpillar | the elongated wormlike larva of a butterfly or moth. |
| cinnabar | a kind of moth. |
| clearwing | a transparent-winged moth of the family Sesiidae, often resembling wasps. |
| cleopatra | a yellow butterfly. |
| codlin codling quodlin | a kind of moth. |
| comma | a kind of butterfly with strongly indented wing margins. |
| cornborer | a European moth whose larvae have become a pest of maize in America. |
| cornmoth | a moth of the clothes-moth genus. |
| cornworm | a corn weevil, a corn moth larva. |
| cutworm | a caterpillar, esp. of the moth genus Agrotis, that feeds on the stems of young plants. |
| drepanid | a hook-tip moth. |
| earworm | a BOLLWORM, the larva of a moth which devours the bolls or unripe pods of the cotton plant. |
| eggar egger | any of several large brown moths. |
| eruciform | like or resembling a caterpillar. |
| fireworm | the larva of a small TORTRICID moth which eats the leaves of the cranberry, so that the vines look as if burned. |
| forester | any of various noctuid moths. |
| fritillary | any of several kinds of spotted butterfly. |
| fruitworm | any of numerous insect larvae mainly of the orders Diptera and Lepidoptera that feed on or in fruits. |
| gatekeeper | any of several Eurasian butterflies of the genus Pyronia. |
| geometer | a geometrid caterpillar or moth. |
| geometrid | any moth of the Geometridae, whose caterpillars are loopers. |
| goldtail | as in goldtail moth, a European moth with a yellow tail tuft. No —S. |
| graine | silkworm eggs. |
| grayling | a woodland butterfly. |
| hairstreak | a butterfly of the genus Thecla. |
| hawkmoth | a kind of large moth. |
| hesperid | any of numerous small butterflies of the family Hesperiidae, somewhat like moths; a skipper. |
| hopdog | the tussock moth caterpillar. |
| hornworm | a hawkmoth caterpillar. |
| inchworm | another name for the LOOPER caterpillar. |
| leafworm | a moth larva that feeds on leaves. |
| lepidopteran | an insect such as moth or butterfly. |
| lepidopterid | a moth or butterfly. |
| lepidopterous | having four wings, such as a moth or butterfly. |
| looper | a caterpillar of the Geometridae, so called from its mode of walking. |
| luna | a North American moth with crescent-shaped markings. [L. luna, moon]. |
| lycaenid | any member of the Lycaenidae, a family of butterflies. |
| metalmark | one of a family of tropical butterflies. |
| monarch | an American butterfly that migrates in large numbers. |
| morpho | a kind of tropical butterfly > MORPHOS. [Gk. Morpho, a name of Aphrodite]. |
| mothlike | like a moth. |
| mothproof | to make proof against moths. |
| mothy | full of moths > MOTHIER, MOTHIEST. |
| noctua | a general name for any moth of the family Noctuidae. |
| noctuid | a kind of night-flying moth. |
| noctuoid | of or like a NOCTUID, a night-flying moth. |
| notodontid | a member of the Notodontidae genus of moths. |
| nymphalid | any butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. |
| oobit oubit woubit woobut | a hairy caterpillar, esp. of the tiger moth. |
| palmerworm | any destructive caterpillar. |
| papilio | a genus of butterflies. [L. papilio, butterfly]. |
| peacock | a kind of butterfly, with prominent eye-spots. |
| pierid pieridine | relating to the family Pieridae of butterflies, that includes the whites, brimstones, and sulphurs. |
| porina | the larva of a moth that damages grassland. |
| prominent | a stout drab-coloured moth with tufts on the forewings which stick up while at rest, the caterpillars of which typically have fleshy growths on the back. |
| pug | any of several small geometrid moths. |
| pyralid pyralis pyralidid | a kind of moth. [Gk. pyralis, from pyr, fire]. |
| quodlin | see CODLIN. |
| ringlet | any of numerous butterflies of the genus Erebia, which have dark brown wings marked with small black-and-white eyespots. |
| saturniid | any of a family of large tropical moths. |
| satyrid | any butterfly of the family SATYRIDAE. |
| silkworm | the larva of the Chinese moth Bombyx mori, that feeds on the leaves of the mulberry tree: widely cultivated as a source of silk. |
| skeletonizer skeletoniser | any of the larva of various moths that feed on leaves reducing them to skeletons. |
| skipper | any small butterfly of the family Hesperiidae, having a hairy mothlike body and erratic darting flight. |
| spanworm | the larva of any geometrid moth, such as the CANKERWORM. |
| sphingid | a member of the Sphingidae family, hawk-moths. |
| swallowtail | any of various butterflies of the genus PAPILIO. |
| tineid | a moth of the family TINEIDAE. |
| tortoiseshell | a kind of butterfly with colourful markings. |
| tortricid | any moth of the family Tortricidae. |
| tortrix | a tortricid moth, esp. of the genus Tortrix; a leaf-roller moth > TORTRIXES or TORTRICES. |
| troilus | a large American butterfly > TROILUSES. |
| underwing | any of various moths with conspicuous hindwings. |
| vanessa vanessid | a butterfly of the red admiral genus Vanessa. [Perhaps for Phanessa, from Greek Phanes, a mystic divinity]. |
| vaporer vapourer | a day-flying moth of the genus Orgyia. |
| viceroy | a showy North American nymphalid butterfly. |
| waxworm | a moth that infests beehives. |
| webworm | any of a number of caterpillars that spin webs in which they rest. |
| witchetty | any of the edible grubs of certain moths and longhorn beetles. [Aborig. wityu hooked stick + varti grub.] |
| woobut | see OOBIT. |
| woubit | see OOBIT. |
| zygaenid zygaenoid | relating to the moth family Zygaenidae, that includes burnet moths. |