geometrid

3 definitions found

geometrid - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Geometrid \Ge*om"e*trid\, a. (Zool.)
     Pertaining or belonging to the Geometrid[ae].
     [1913 Webster]

  Geometrid \Ge*om"e*trid\, n. (Zool.)
     One of numerous genera and species of moths, of the family
     Geometrid[ae]; -- so called because their larv[ae] (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.
     [1913 Webster]

geometrid - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  geometrid
      n 1: slender-bodied broad-winged moth whose larvae are called
           measuring worms [syn: geometrid, geometrid moth]