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Webster 1913 Edition

Phalaena

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Pha-læ′na

(fȧ-lē′nȧ)

,

p

rop.

Noun.

[NL., fr. Gr.

φάλαινα

,

φάλλαινα

, a kind of moth.]

(Zool.)

A linnæan genus which included the moths in general.