hawkmoth in English

noun
1
a large swift-flying moth with a stout body and narrow forewings, typically feeding on nectar while hovering.

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1. Bedstraw hawkmoth Hyles gallii (Rottemburg, 1775) Family: Sphingidae

2. Those with the Prestigious Bounty Hunter License can also get three additional styles / variants of the Bolas: Hawkmoth, Brookstone, & Gravesend.

3. A Red Admirable butterfly flutters round Shade moments before his death; a green ephemeral trichopteron describes trapezoids over Pnin's bald head at the very end of the synoptic chapters of the book; a hawkmoth convoys Krug out of the novel: "And as Olga's soul, emblemized already in an earlier chapter [Nine], Bombinates in the damp dark at