TINEOIDEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tineoidea mean? 

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

1. clothes moths; carpet moths; leaf miners

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TINEOIDEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Clothes moths; carpet moths; leaf miners

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

superfamily Tineoidea; Tineoidea

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

arthropod family (any of the arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "Tineoidea"):

tineoid; tineoid moth (small dull-colored moth with chewing mouthparts)

family Tineidae; Tineidae (clothes moths)

family Gracilariidae; Gracilariidae; Gracillariidae (leaf miners)

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

Lepidoptera; order Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies)