carpet moth
English
Noun
carpet moth (plural carpet moths)
- The moth Trichophaga tapetzella.
- Synonym: tapestry moth
- The moth Tinea pellionella.
- Synonym: tapestry moth
- Synonym of carpet (“any of a number of moths in the geometrid subfamily Larentiinae”).
References
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “carpet moth”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- carpet moth on Wikipedia.Wikipedia