noun
greyish-brown moth whose larva is the potato tuberworm
• Syn: ↑potato tuber moth, ↑splitworm, ↑Phthorimaea operculella
• Hypernyms: ↑gelechiid, ↑gelechiid moth
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noun or potato tuber moth : a grayish brown gelechild moth (Phthorimaea operculella) whose larva is the potato tuberworm
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a gelechiid moth, Phthorimaea operculella, the larvae of which feed on the leaves and bore into the tubers of potatoes and other solanaceous plants.
[1890-95]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.