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GENUS TINEA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Tinea mean?
• GENUS TINEA (noun)
The noun GENUS TINEA has 1 sense:
1. type genus of the Tineidae: clothes moths
Familiarity information: GENUS TINEA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Type genus of the Tineidae: clothes moths
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
genus Tinea; Tinea
Hypernyms ("genus Tinea" is a kind of...):
arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)
Meronyms (members of "genus Tinea"):
casemaking clothes moth; Tinea pellionella (the larvae live in tubes of its food material fastened with silk that it spins)
Holonyms ("genus Tinea" is a member of...):
family Tineidae; Tineidae (clothes moths)
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