genus manduca

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   moths whose larvae are tobacco hornworms or tomato hornworms

   SynonymsManduca

   Broaderarthropod genus

   Part ofSphingidae

Questions about genus manduca

What does genus manduca mean?

genus manduca means "moths whose larvae are tobacco hornworms or tomato hornworms".

What is another word for genus manduca?

Close synonyms include Manduca. 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 genus manduca a common word?

genus manduca 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.