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sphingid

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Noun

sphingid (plural sphingids)

  1. (entomology) Any of many hawk moths of the family Sphingidae

Adjective

sphingid (comparative more sphingid, superlative most sphingid)

  1. Of or pertaining to these moths.
    • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 108:
      There was a crescent eaten out of a vine leaf by a sphingid larva.

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