mediterranean flour moth

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   small moth whose larvae damage stored grain and flour

   SynonymsAnagasta kuehniella

   Broaderpyralid

   Part ofAnagasta

Questions about mediterranean flour moth

What does mediterranean flour moth mean?

mediterranean flour moth means "small moth whose larvae damage stored grain and flour".

What is another word for mediterranean flour moth?

Close synonyms include Anagasta kuehniella. 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 mediterranean flour moth a common word?

mediterranean flour 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.