Akademik

Tineidae

noun

clothes moths

• Syn: ↑family Tineidae

• Hypernyms: ↑arthropod family

• Member Holonyms: ↑Tineoidea, ↑superfamily Tineoidea

• Member Meronyms:

↑tineid, ↑tineid moth, ↑Tinea, ↑genus Tinea, ↑Tineola, ↑genus Tineola, ↑Trichophaga, ↑genus Trichophaga

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\\tə̇ˈnēəˌdē\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Tinea, type genus + -idae

: a family of small usually dully colored moths (superfamily Tineoidea) comprising the common clothes moths and related insects and in former classifications including all or most of the Microlepidoptera

Useful english dictionary. 2012.