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From Latin noctua (“owl”, literally “nocturnal one”) + English -oid.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: Any moth of the superfamily Noctuoidea Full definition →
From Latin noctua (“owl”, literally “nocturnal one”) + English -oid.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.