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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Lu·na n.
 1. The moon.
 2. Alchemy Silver.
 Luna cornea Old Chem., horn silver, or fused silver chloride, a tough, brown, translucent mass; -- so called from its resemblance to horn.
 Luna moth Zool., a very large and beautiful American moth (Actias luna).  Its wings are delicate light green, with a stripe of purple along the front edge of the anterior wings, the other margins being edged with pale yellow.  Each wing has a lunate spot surrounded by rings of light yellow, blue, and black.  The caterpillar commonly feeds on the hickory, sassafras, and maple.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 Actias luna
      n : large pale-green American moth with long-tailed hind wings
          and a yellow crescent-shaped mark on each fore wing [syn:
           luna moth]