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Tineoidea

noun

clothes moths; carpet moths; leaf miners

• Syn: ↑superfamily Tineoidea

• Hypernyms: ↑arthropod family

• Member Holonyms: ↑Lepidoptera, ↑order Lepidoptera

• Member Meronyms:

↑tineoid, ↑tineoid moth, ↑Tineidae, ↑family Tineidae, ↑Gracilariidae, ↑Gracillariidae, ↑family Gracilariidae

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\\ˌtinēˈȯidēə\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Tinea + -oidea

: a superfamily of small moths comprising the majority of the Microlepidoptera (as the clothes moths, carpet moths, leaf miners) and having narrow simply veined wings broadly fringed with hairs

Useful english dictionary. 2012.