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GELECHIA

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Meaning:

Type genus of the Gelechiidae: pink bollworms

Synonyms:

Gelechia; genus Gelechia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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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