engrailed

English

A cross engrailed.

Adjective

engrailed (not comparable)

1. (heraldry) Having an edge or border indented with semicircles with points outwards (and convex part inwards).

   Antonym: invected

Noun

engrailed (plural engraileds)

1. A European moth, Ectropis crepuscularia.
   • 1992, Richard Dickson, “A lepidopterist's handbook”, in Amateur Entomologists' Society, Great Britain, page 10:

     […] a common total would be about thirty moths, equally divided between Early Greys and Engraileds.

Translations

moth

• Finnish: täpläharmomittari
• French: boarmie crépusculaire (fr) f
• Russian: пя́деница пи́хтовая f (pjádenica píxtovaja), пя́деница (ru) f (pjádenica)

Anagrams

• Geraldine, dregealin, realigned, redealing, releading