carpocapsa pomonella

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   a small grey moth whose larvae live in apples and English walnuts

   Synonymscodling mothcodlin moth

   Broadertortricid

   Part ofCarpocapsa

Questions about carpocapsa pomonella

What does carpocapsa pomonella mean?

carpocapsa pomonella means "a small grey moth whose larvae live in apples and English walnuts".

What is another word for carpocapsa pomonella?

Close synonyms include codling moth, codlin moth. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is carpocapsa pomonella a common word?

carpocapsa pomonella 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.