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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. One of the Gelechiidæ.
  2. Of or belonging to the lepidopterous family Gelechiidæ.

Wiktionary

  1. n. zoology Any member of the Gelechiidae.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. a small slender-winged moth whose larvae are agricultural pests.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. small slender-winged moths whose larvae are agricultural pests

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  • “Second, we raised gelechiid larvae on greenhouse-grown lupins with factorial manipulation of competitors and soil N and P.”

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  • “We examined larval performance in response to leaf nutritional characteristics using gelechiid and pyralid leaf-tiers, and a noctuid leaf-cutter.”

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  1. gelechiid moth

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  1. moth

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  1. phthorimaea operculella
  1. gelechia gossypiella
  1. grain moth
  1. potato tuber moth
  1. splitworm
  1. potato moth

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  1. gelechia gossypiella
  1. potato-moth
  1. pink bollworm

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