peppered moth

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peppered moth (plural peppered moths)

  1. A light-coloured species of night-flying moth, Biston betularia.
    • 2015 May 21, Victoria Schlesinger, “Backyard evolution”, in Aeon‎[1]:
      At the start of the Industrial Revolution, the common, light-coloured peppered moth stood out in the soot-covered landscape around coal plants.
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