"bee moth" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: bee moths [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} bee moth (plural bee moths)
  1. Aphomia sociella.
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  2. Any wax moth.
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  3. (UK) Any yellow and black hawk moth, especially genus Hemaris, that resembles a bumblebee, a bumblebee moth. Tags: UK Categories (lifeform): Pyraloid moths, Sphinx moths
    Sense id: en-bee_moth-en-noun-3ngSRh5A Disambiguation of Pyraloid moths: 2 28 69 Disambiguation of Sphinx moths: 2 20 78 Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 1 19 80 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 1 12 87 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 1 21 78

Inflected forms

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