Yponomeuta (iponomuta)

[NL. (Latreille, 1796), prop. Hyponomeuta, teristics of youth. [Rare.] All such whom either youthful age or youth like minds did fill with unlimited desires. Sir P. Sidney , Arcadia, iii. youthlyt (yöth'li), a. [ youth + -ly1.] Pertaining to youth; characteristic of youth; youthful. The knight was fiers, and full of youthly heat. Spenser, F. Q., I. v. 7. That sooth'd you in your sins and youthly pomp. Greene, James IV., v. IMG:content-2716.png:[blocks in formation] Spenser, F. Q., I. xi. 34. genus of tineid moths, typical of the family Yponomeutidæ, comprising a number of rather large slender-bodied species, usually white or gray, and often with many small black spots. The larvæ live gregariously in a light web, and feed upon the foliage of different plants. About a dozen species are found in Europe and 7 in North America. Y. cognatella is exceedingly destructive to apple-trees, depriving them of their leaves. Yponomeutidæ (i-pon-ō-mu'ti-dē), n. pl. [NL. (Stephens, 1829), IMG:content-2717.png:[blocks in formation]