Definition of "eggar" []

• Variant of egger. (noun)

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• "Call me not an entomologist, call me a lepidopterist, if you will -- though, really, that is too broad a term for a man who is not so much taken up with moths generally as with the third ring of the antennæ of the great oak-eggar."
• "It is noteworthy that in these short-lived insects the male is often provided with elaborate sense-organs which, we may believe, assist him to find a mate with as little delay as possible; the male may-fly has especially complex eyes, while the feelers of the male silk-moth or eggar are comb-like or feathery, the branches bearing thousands of sensory hairs."
• "Scarce butterflies found include the high brown fritillary, small eggar and blotched emerald."