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lappet

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: lappet

1
 n
a small lap on a garment or headdress
2
 n
medium-sized hairy moths; larvae are lappet caterpillars
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: lappet
1

n a small lap on a garment or headdress

Type of:
lap, overlap
a flap that lies over another part

n a fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds (chickens and turkeys) or lizards

Synonyms:
wattle
Type of:
caruncle, caruncula
an outgrowth on a plant or animal such as a fowl's wattle or a protuberance near the hilum of certain seeds
2

n medium-sized hairy moths; larvae are lappet caterpillars

Synonyms:
lappet moth
Type of:
lasiocampid, lasiocampid moth
medium-sized stout-bodied neutral-colored moths with comb-like antennae
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