tortricid moth

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   any of numerous small moths having lightly fringed wings; larvae are leaf rollers or live in fruits and galls

   Synonymstortricid

   Broadermoth

   Narrowerleaf rollertea tortrixorange tortrixcodling moth

   Part ofTortricidae

Questions about tortricid moth

What does tortricid moth mean?

tortricid moth means "any of numerous small moths having lightly fringed wings; larvae are leaf rollers or live in fruits and galls".

What is another word for tortricid moth?

Close synonyms include tortricid. 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 tortricid moth a common word?

tortricid 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.