ALSOPHILA POMETARIA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

North American moth with grey-winged males and wingless females; larvae are fall cankerworms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Alsophila pometaria" is a kind of...):

geometrid; geometrid moth (slender-bodied broad-winged moth whose larvae are called measuring worms)

Holonyms ("Alsophila pometaria" is a member of...):

Alsophila; genus Alsophila (geometrid moths)

Credits