'Death's-head moth' definitions:
Definition of 'death's-head moth'
From: WordNet
noun
European hawkmoth with markings on the back resembling a human skull [syn: death's-head moth, Acherontia atropos]
Definition of 'Death's-head moth'
From: GCIDE
- Death's-head \Death's"-head`\, n. A naked human skull as the emblem of death; the head of the conventional personification of death. [1913 Webster]
- I had rather be married to a death's-head with a bone in his mouth. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Death's-head moth (Zool.), a very large European moth (Acherontia atropos), so called from a figure resembling a human skull on the back of the thorax; -- called also death's-head sphinx. [1913 Webster]