Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One of the Gelechiidæ.
  • Of or belonging to the lepidopterous family Gelechiidæ.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun a small slender-winged moth whose larvae are agricultural pests.

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  • noun zoology Any member of the Gelechiidae.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun small slender-winged moths whose larvae are agricultural pests

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  • Second, we raised gelechiid larvae on greenhouse-grown lupins with factorial manipulation of competitors and soil N and P.

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  • We examined larval performance in response to leaf nutritional characteristics using gelechiid and pyralid leaf-tiers, and a noctuid leaf-cutter.

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