casemaking clothes moth

1. 1.

   the larvae live in tubes of its food material fastened with silk that it spins

   SynonymsTinea pellionella

   Broaderclothes moth

   Part ofTinea

Questions about casemaking clothes moth

What does casemaking clothes moth mean?

casemaking clothes moth means "the larvae live in tubes of its food material fastened with silk that it spins".

What is another word for casemaking clothes moth?

Close synonyms include Tinea pellionella. 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 casemaking clothes moth a common word?

casemaking clothes moth 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.