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CASEMAKING CLOTHES MOTH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The larvae live in tubes of its food material fastened with silk that it spins
Synonyms:
casemaking clothes moth; Tinea pellionella
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("casemaking clothes moth" is a kind of...):
clothes moth (any of several small yellowish or buff-colored moths whose larvae eat organic matter e.g. woolens)
Holonyms ("casemaking clothes moth" is a member of...):
genus Tinea; Tinea (type genus of the Tineidae: clothes moths)