Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia - n. The typical genus of
Nolidæ, founded by Leach in 1819, by him placed in Pyrales, by
others referred to Bombyces. The fore wings are short, much
widened behind, with moderately pointed tips and a slightly
curved hind border; there are patches of raised scales below the
costa, in variable number; the hind wings are short, rounded,
and unmarked; nervures 3 and 4. 6 and 7 rise on long stalks, or
4 is wanting; and the male antennæ are strongly ciliated or
pectinated. The larvæ are broad and flat, with 14 legs and hairy
warts. It is a wide-spread genus, rather northern. N. sarghiella
feeds on sorghum in the United states. - n. A female given name.
- From Finola, from Irish Fionnghuala. In The U.S.A. also
interpreted as a feminine form of Nolan. (Wiktionary) “The type
of voting that too often passes as "strategic" in Nola is more
of a self-inflicted "mindfreak" than anything else.” “Qnintilian
is the firil author that makes ule of the term Nola; before him,
Tint* as the e-mmon