alsophila pometaria

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   North American moth with grey-winged males and wingless females; larvae are fall cankerworms

   Broadergeometrid

   Part ofAlsophila

Questions about alsophila pometaria

What does alsophila pometaria mean?

alsophila pometaria means "North American moth with grey-winged males and wingless females; larvae are fall cankerworms".

Is alsophila pometaria a common word?

alsophila pometaria is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.