GENUS GELECHIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Gelechia mean? 

• GENUS GELECHIA (noun)
  The noun GENUS GELECHIA has 1 sense:

1. type genus of the Gelechiidae: pink bollworms

  Familiarity information: GENUS GELECHIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS GELECHIA (noun)

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Meaning:

Type genus of the Gelechiidae: pink bollworms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Gelechia; genus Gelechia

Hypernyms ("genus Gelechia" is a kind of...):

arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "genus Gelechia"):

Gelechia gossypiella (small brown moth whose larvae bore into flowers and bolls of cotton)

Holonyms ("genus Gelechia" is a member of...):

family Gelechiidae; Gelechiidae (important economic pests)