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mothlike

a. Resembling a moth or some aspect of one.

Usage examples of "mothlike".

If you shake it, these tiny, mothlike creatures fly up from the undersides of the leaves in great numbers.

The bat had been identified as an innocent victim of appearances, a very mild-mannered beast dedicated to the pursuit and engulfment of huge mothlike bugs which hung around watercourses.

Her mothlike breath changed to something heavier, and within moments she was deeply asleep.

Her willowy ears and corkscrew antennae bestowed on her a vaguely mothlike aspect, though Nom Anor considered her a pest more on the magnitude of a radank.

From the flame of consciousness to the darkness of insensibility, swooping mothlike between the two, I grew inexorably weaker, fuzzy-headed, and very much hotter.

In fact, we were going to get closer - a lot closer - drawn mothlike by the greed of the Squeem for stolen Xeelee treasure.

Memories of being trapped in darkness flickered mothlike against the outside edges of his control but worse even than that were images of the experiments that would begin when sunrise made him vulnerable once more.