Etymology

owlet moth

Today it means: Any moth of the family Noctuidae. Full definition →

translingual Noctua
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  1. translingual · calque ofNoctua
  2. translingual · calque ofNoctua
  3. English todayowlet moth

Partial calque of translingual Noctua (genus of moths, type genus of the family Noctuidae, literally “owl”) + moth.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.