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Eggar

Eggar \Eg"gar\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zo["o]l.) Any bombycid moth of the genera Eriogaster and Lasiocampa; as, the oak eggar ( L. roboris) of Europe.

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eggar

n. Any moth of the family ''(taxlink Lasiocampidae family noshow=1)''.

WordNet
eggar

n. moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults; larvae feed on tree foliage and spin egg-shaped cocoons [syn: egger]

Usage examples of "eggar".

However, Captain Eggar, my police attache here, should be able to assist you.

Hoyningen-Heune, Minister to the Legation and Captain Eggar, police attache.

Berger was forced to leave things to Eggar who spoke the language fluently.

The Walther Devlin had been holding on his knee appeared above the table now and he fired again, shooting Eggar through the right hand.

By Robin Eggar Synopsis: On 4 September 1991 thirty-three young men entered the Commando Training Centre at Lympstone in Devon.

Robin Eggar followed these young men through from their first to last day of training.

Robin Eggar wanted to be a soldier until he was 12, when he fell in love with the Rolling Stones.

One other actress, Samantha Eggar, was to provide him with a hotter piece of spice than he could swallow, while the renowned feminist Gloria Steinem would act as a one-person tribunal, judging, condemning, and sentencing Henry to not being able to make love to her because of his political skullduggery and ideological frigidity.

Samantha Eggar, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Christopher Jones, and Sally Kellerman, to name only a few.

The spines of the caterpillar of our Oak Eggar moth are very brittle, and in handling these insects, great care must be taken, as cases are known of blindness having been caused by the spines being carried into the eyes by the fingers.

Peggy Eggars folded her arms across her full chest and avoided looking at Lisa.

Colonel Eggars of the 4th landed with the first shuttles, along with his staff.

His name was Dean Eggars, and he was the same dancer Charlie had held the unprecedented audition for a few weeks earlier.

After all, she decided with some irony, if Rhonda could find something to admire in MacLaughlin, whose charm quotient was zero, why should succumbing to Eggars be a great big shock?

Yet, as he looked at the damage Eggars had done to his Mandy, he felt a vengeful desire to have him alive once again and at his mercy, to experience the pleasure of beating the man, if not to death, then to within an inch of his life.