promethea

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English

Noun

promethea (plural prometheas)

  1. A silkmoth of species Callosamia promethea.
    • 2021, Gilbert Waldbauer, How Not to Be Eaten: The Insects Fight Back, page 174:
      [] were released in a woodland, in the center of a mile-wide circle of seven traps baited with female prometheas.