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GALLERIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Galleria mean?
• GALLERIA (noun)
The noun GALLERIA has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: GALLERIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A genus of Pyralidae
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Galleria; genus Galleria
Hypernyms ("Galleria" is a kind of...):
arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)
Meronyms (members of "Galleria"):
bee moth; Galleria mellonella; wax moth (moth whose larvae live in and feed on bee honeycombs)
Holonyms ("Galleria" is a member of...):
family Pyralidae; family Pyralididae; Pyralidae; Pyralididae (bee moths; corn borers; flour moths)
Context examples
The common wax worm, or Galleria mellonella, researchers say, can eat plastic and could help reduce the waste caused by the one trillion polyethylene plastic bags used around the world annually.
(Plastic Eating Worm Could Help Ease Pollution, VOA)
We have found that the larva of a common insect, Galleria mellonella, is able to biodegrade one of the toughest, most resilient, and most used plastics: polyethylene, says Federica Bertocchini of the Institute of Biomedicine and Biotechnology of Cantabria in Spain.
(Plastic Eating Worm Could Help Ease Pollution, VOA)
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