INDIAN MEAL MOTH


Meaning of INDIAN MEAL MOTH in English

noun

Usage: usually capitalized I

Etymology: indian meal + moth

: a small variably marked pyralid moth ( Plodia interpunctella ) having an equally variably colored larva that feeds on cereal products and other dried foods and by its extensive webbing destroys more than it consumes

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.