gelechiid moth

Questions about gelechiid moth

What does gelechiid moth mean?

gelechiid moth means "small slender-winged moths whose larvae are agricultural pests".

What is another word for gelechiid moth?

Close synonyms include gelechiid. 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 gelechiid moth a common word?

gelechiid 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.