potato moth

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   greyish-brown moth whose larva is the potato tuberworm

   Synonymspotato tuber mothsplitwormPhthorimaea operculella

   Broadergelechiid

Questions about potato moth

What does potato moth mean?

potato moth means "greyish-brown moth whose larva is the potato tuberworm".

What is another word for potato moth?

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

potato 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.