traça — meaning in English

English meaning

• bookworm noun A person who loves reading and reads often.
• moth noun A flying insect related to the butterfly, usually active at night and less colorful, with feathery antennae.

Senses

traça is used for these senses in English:

• bookworm Any of various insects that infest books.
• bristletail Any of various small, active six-legged arthropods that have two or three bristles at the ends of their abdomens and that do not have wings. These were formerly classified together in the insect subclass Apterygota or the order Thysanura but are no longer considered closely related:
• moth Any flying insect of the order Lepidoptera not in the superfamily Papilionoidea, most species of which are nocturnal and can be distinguished from butterflies by feather-like antennae.
• silverfish A small wingless insect of species Lepisma saccharinum, with silvery scales; a type of bristletail.

bookworm — full definition

1. noun A person who loves reading and reads often.
2. noun Any of several small insects that damage books by feeding on paper or bindings.

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