POTATO TUBER MOTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does potato tuber moth mean? 

• POTATO TUBER MOTH (noun)
  The noun POTATO TUBER MOTH has 1 sense:

1. greyish-brown moth whose larva is the potato tuberworm

  Familiarity information: POTATO TUBER MOTH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POTATO TUBER MOTH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Greyish-brown moth whose larva is the potato tuberworm

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Phthorimaea operculella; potato moth; potato tuber moth; splitworm

Hypernyms ("potato tuber moth" is a kind of...):

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