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GENUS GELECHIA

Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Gelechia mean?

• GENUS GELECHIA (noun)
The noun GENUS GELECHIA has 1 sense:

1. type genus of the Gelechiidae: pink bollworms

Familiarity information: GENUS GELECHIA used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• GENUS GELECHIA (noun)

Sense 1

genus Gelechia ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

Type genus of the Gelechiidae: pink bollworms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Gelechia; genus Gelechia

Hypernyms ("genus Gelechia" is a kind of...):

arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "genus Gelechia"):

Gelechia gossypiella (small brown moth whose larvae bore into flowers and bolls of cotton)

Holonyms ("genus Gelechia" is a member of...):

family Gelechiidae; Gelechiidae (important economic pests)

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