sphingid
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
sphingid (plural sphingids)
- (entomology) Any of many hawk moths of the family Sphingidae
Adjective[edit]
sphingid (comparative more sphingid, superlative most sphingid)
- Of or pertaining to these moths.
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 108:
- There was a crescent eaten out of a vine leaf by a sphingid larva.