Crossword clues for geometrid
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Geometrid \Ge*om"e*trid\, a. (Zo["o]l.) Pertaining or belonging to the Geometrid[ae].
Geometrid \Ge*om"e*trid\, n. (Zo["o]l.) 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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context entomology English) Any of the various moths of the family Geometridae. 2 A larva of such moth, which when walking alternate legs and prolegs, giving the appearance of measuring.
WordNet
n. slender-bodied broad-winged moth whose larvae are called measuring worms [syn: geometrid moth]
Usage examples of "geometrid".
It stood before the Councillors and tore into another of the geometrid things.