Geometrid

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}]