noun
important economic pests
• Syn: ↑family Gelechiidae
• Hypernyms: ↑arthropod family
• Member Holonyms: ↑Lepidoptera, ↑order Lepidoptera
• Member Meronyms:
↑gelechiid, ↑gelechiid moth, ↑Gelechia, ↑genus Gelechia, ↑Sitotroga, ↑genus Sitotroga, ↑Phthorimaea, ↑genus Phthorimaea, ↑pink bollworm, ↑Gelechia gossypiella
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\\ˌjeləˈkīəˌdē\ noun pluralUsage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from Gelechia, type genus (from Greek gēlechēs sleeping on the earth + New Latin -ia) + -idae
: a large family of small moths having slender wings with the outer margin of the hind wing usually concave and including important economic insects (as the pink bollworm, the Angoumois grain moth, and various leaf rollers)
Useful english dictionary. 2012.