Noctuid is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 160 anagrams from letters in noctuid (cdinotu).
1875-80; New Latin Noctuidae, equivalent to Noctu(a) a genus of European moths (Latin noctua the little owl, probably noun use of feminine of *noctuus, equivalent to noct-, stem of nox
Genitalia of a male noctuid from below : the parts separated out.
Mller mentions a most extraordinary fact of one of the noctuid, which when disclosed from the pupa retained the head of the larva.
Box turtles probably benefit man by destroying large numbers of crop-damaging insects (locustids and noctuid caterpillars).
On the whole, members of this family are more available to the day collector than are those of the noctuid.
For example, the caterpillars of some species of Xanthia and other noctuid moths feed at first upon willow-catkins.
For instance Plotheia frontalis, a noctuid which often abounds in Ceylon, shows an equally bewildering wealth of forms.