GELECHIIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Gelechiidae mean? 

• GELECHIIDAE (noun)
  The noun GELECHIIDAE has 1 sense:

1. important economic pests

  Familiarity information: GELECHIIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GELECHIIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Important economic pests

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Gelechiidae; Gelechiidae

Hypernyms ("Gelechiidae" is a kind of...):

arthropod family (any of the arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "Gelechiidae"):

gelechiid; gelechiid moth (small slender-winged moths whose larvae are agricultural pests)

Gelechia; genus Gelechia (type genus of the Gelechiidae: pink bollworms)

genus Sitotroga; Sitotroga (grain moths)

genus Phthorimaea; Phthorimaea (potato moths)

Gelechia gossypiella; pink bollworm (larvae of a gelechiid moth introduced from Asia; feeds on the seeds of cotton bolls)

Holonyms ("Gelechiidae" is a member of...):

Lepidoptera; order Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies)