gelechia gossypiella

English Thesaurus

1. small brown moth whose larvae bore into flowers and bolls of cotton (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	gelechiid, gelechiid moth,
definition	:	small slender-winged moths whose larvae are agricultural pests (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	gelechia, genus gelechia,
definition	:	type genus of the Gelechiidae: pink bollworms (noun.animal)

2. larvae of a gelechiid moth introduced from Asia; feeds on the seeds of cotton bolls (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	bollworm,
definition	:	any of various moth caterpillars that destroy cotton bolls (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	family gelechiidae, gelechiidae,
definition	:	important economic pests (noun.animal)