Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Noctuid

Noctuid , noun

[From Latin nox, noctis, night.]

(Zoology) Any one of numerous moths of the family Noctuidae, or Noctuaelitae, as the cutworm moths, and armyworm moths; -- so called because they fly at night.
(Zoology) Of or pertaining to the noctuids, or family Noctuidae.