sphingid

sphingid (plural sphingids)

1. (entomology) Any of many hawk moths of the family Sphingidae

sphingid (comparative more sphingid, superlative most sphingid)

1. Of or pertaining to these moths.
   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 108:

     There was a crescent eaten out of a vine leaf by a sphingid larva.