3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Geometrid \Ge*om"e*trid\, a. (Zool.) Pertaining or belonging to the {Geometrid[ae]}. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: geometrid n : slender-bodied broad-winged moth whose larvae are called measuring worms [syn: {geometrid moth}]
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