genus gelechia

English Thesaurus

1. type genus of the Gelechiidae: pink bollworms (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	arthropod genus,
definition	:	a genus of arthropods (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	gelechia gossypiella,
definition	:	small brown moth whose larvae bore into flowers and bolls of cotton (noun.animal)

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