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Definition of Geometrid
1. Noun. Slender-bodied broad-winged moth whose larvae are called measuring worms.
Generic synonyms: Moth
Group relationships: Family Geometridae, Geometridae
Specialized synonyms: Paleacrita Vernata, Alsophila Pometaria
Definition of Geometrid
1. a. Pertaining or belonging to the Geometridæ.
2. n. One of numerous genera and species of moths, of the family Geometridæ; -- so called because their larvæ (called loopers, measuring worms, spanworms, and inchworms) creep in a looping manner, as if measuring. Many of the species are injurious to agriculture, as the cankerworms.
Definition of Geometrid
1. Noun. (zoology) Any of the various moths of the family Geometridae. ¹
2. Noun. A larva of such moth, which when walking alternate legs and prolegs, giving the appearance of measuring. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Geometrid
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Medical Definition of Geometrid
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Geometrid
Literary usage of Geometrid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera: A Text-book for Students and by James William Tutt (1900)
"The geometrid, pupa; differ, as a whole, in being less uniform than ... It is
paralleled by the similar variation in the geometrid eggs. ..."
2. Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada: Déliberations by Royal Society of Canada (1908)
"PEARSALL, RICHARD F. A review of our geometrid Classification—No. 3. (An attempt
to arrange the species of this family of Moths under genera based upon ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1895)
"At the same time the resemblance between aberrant geometrid moths in the ...
seems to mimic bark or branchlets, thus like that of the geometrid genus, ..."
4. Animal and Plant Lore: Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking by Fanny Dickerson Bergen (1899)
"729. Inch-worm, larvae of geometrid moths. Cambridge, Mass. 730. Measuring-worm,
larvae of geometrid moths. ..."
5. Monograph of the Bombycine Moths of North America: Including Their by Alpheus Spring Packard, Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell (1905)
"Thus a geometrid larva holding itself out stiff like one of the twigs of its food
plant, becomes lost to view. Some larva?, he says, "appear to be ..."
6. Half Hours with Insects by Alpheus Spring Packard (1877)
"Among butterflies, the Papilio or swallow-tailed butterfly is very closely
mimicked, both in form and color, by' the highly colored swallow-tailed geometrid ..."
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