dun-bar

Wikispecies

From dun + bar, referring to its color and two "bars" on its fore-wings.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʌnbɑː(ɹ)/

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dun-bar (plural dun-bars)

1. A moth of species Cosmia trapezina, found in parts of Europe.

• dun-bar moth

• American dun-bar, American dun-bar moth

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “dun-bar”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• unbra'd, bundar, Braund, Durban