phthorimaea operculella

Questions about phthorimaea operculella

What does phthorimaea operculella mean?

phthorimaea operculella means "larva of potato moth; mines in leaves and stems of e.g. potatoes and tobacco". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for phthorimaea operculella?

Close synonyms include potato tuberworm, potato moth, potato tuber moth, splitworm. 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 phthorimaea operculella a common word?

phthorimaea operculella 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.