Crossword clues for hawkmoth
Wiktionary
alt. (context entomology English) Any of several moths, of the family ''Sphingidae'', that hover over flowers when sucking nectar through a long proboscis. n. (context entomology English) Any of several moths, of the family ''Sphingidae'', that hover over flowers when sucking nectar through a long proboscis.
WordNet
n. any of various moths with long narrow forewings capable of powerful flight and hovering over flowers to feed [syn: hawk moth, sphingid, sphinx moth, hummingbird moth]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "hawkmoth".
She propped it carefully on the wainscoting beside the hawkmoth, and left.
And as Bloom glanced up, Pacheco swiped at a hawkmoth, missing it by a fraction.
The next attempt was better: a deep-plush, sticky-footed hawkmoth that his mother dispatched with ether and taught him how to spread.
The heat was still humming on the train, and a hawkmoth pupa he had kept in a box for seven years hatched in the unaccustomed warmth.
Android opened his left hand and two opalescent hawkmoths flew out, their wings beating so fast they were only a humming blur.
But there was a single Acherontia atropos, the death's-head hawkmoth, the pattern of gray and brown and pale yellow scales on the back of its thorax forming the image of a human skull.