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GELECHIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Gelechia mean?
• GELECHIA (noun)
The noun GELECHIA has 1 sense:
1. type genus of the Gelechiidae: pink bollworms
Familiarity information: GELECHIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Type genus of the Gelechiidae: pink bollworms
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Gelechia; genus Gelechia
Hypernyms ("Gelechia" is a kind of...):
arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)
Meronyms (members of "Gelechia"):
Gelechia gossypiella (small brown moth whose larvae bore into flowers and bolls of cotton)
Holonyms ("Gelechia" is a member of...):
family Gelechiidae; Gelechiidae (important economic pests)
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