noun
1. larva of potato moth; mines in leaves and stems of e.g. potatoes and tobacco
• Syn: ↑potato tuberworm
• Hypernyms: ↑caterpillar
• Member Holonyms: ↑Phthorimaea, ↑genus Phthorimaea
2. greyish-brown moth whose larva is the potato tuberworm
• Syn: ↑potato moth, ↑potato tuber moth, ↑splitworm
• Hypernyms: ↑gelechiid, ↑gelechiid moth
Useful english dictionary. 2012.