noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
female
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When the evening comes the female spruce budworm moth rises up on warm air currents.
■ NOUN
gypsy
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But something was different about the way the gypsy moths died.
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Worse, the Paris green was killing the trees as well as the gypsy moths .
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In those optimistic times, the commission thought that if they just kept at it they could eventually eradicate the gypsy moth .
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AGMs look very much like our own gypsy moths , albeit a bit larger.
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These days, gypsy moth experts are more interested in the various ways the moths control themselves.
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They did not know it, but the gypsy moth was not being vanquished by their appropriations.
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With a perversity that the pest has become known for, the gypsy moth came roaring back a couple of years later.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As the Bishop underlines, the dark moth is not a new species.
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If you put up a sign offering flesh for sale and bathe it in purple light, they come like moths.
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Like many of us, the moth had by its constructions achieved an immortality of sorts.
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The dark moths appeared in London by 1897.
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Their many tiny cocoons now completely filled the moth cocoon.
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When the evening comes the female spruce budworm moth rises up on warm air currents.