"mothwing" meaning in English

See mothwing in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: mothwings [plural]
Etymology: moth + wing Etymology templates: {{compound|en|moth|wing}} moth + wing Head templates: {{en-noun}} mothwing (plural mothwings)
  1. The wing of a moth.
    Sense id: en-mothwing-en-noun-QJ0ug~Hj Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for mothwing meaning in English (0.9kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "moth",
        "3": "wing"
      },
      "expansion": "moth + wing",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "moth + wing",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mothwings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "mothwing (plural mothwings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2004, Nilanjana S. Roy, A Matter of Taste: The Penguin Book of Indian Writing on Food",
          "text": "The doorway swarms grey with mothwings.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The wing of a moth."
      ],
      "id": "en-mothwing-en-noun-QJ0ug~Hj",
      "links": [
        [
          "wing",
          "wing"
        ],
        [
          "moth",
          "moth"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "mothwing"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "moth",
        "3": "wing"
      },
      "expansion": "moth + wing",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "moth + wing",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mothwings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "mothwing (plural mothwings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English compound terms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2004, Nilanjana S. Roy, A Matter of Taste: The Penguin Book of Indian Writing on Food",
          "text": "The doorway swarms grey with mothwings.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The wing of a moth."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "wing",
          "wing"
        ],
        [
          "moth",
          "moth"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "mothwing"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (93a6c53 and 21a9316). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.