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- noun small brown moth whose larvae bore into flowers and bolls of cotton
- noun larvae of a gelechiid moth introduced from Asia; feeds on the seeds of cotton bolls
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fbharjo commented on the word gelechia gossypiella
A bug that cottons to cotton
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August 29, 2014