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GENUS TINEA

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Meaning:

Type genus of the Tineidae: clothes moths

Synonyms:

genus Tinea; Tinea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "genus Tinea"):

casemaking clothes moth; Tinea pellionella (the larvae live in tubes of its food material fastened with silk that it spins)

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

family Tineidae; Tineidae (clothes moths)

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