gelechia gossypiella

Questions about gelechia gossypiella

What does gelechia gossypiella mean?

gelechia gossypiella means "larvae of a gelechiid moth introduced from Asia; feeds on the seeds of cotton bolls". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for gelechia gossypiella?

Close synonyms include pink bollworm. 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 gelechia gossypiella a common word?

gelechia gossypiella 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.