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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Geometrid \Ge*om"e*trid\, a. (Zo["o]l.)
Pertaining or belonging to the {Geometrid[ae]}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
geometrid
n : slender-bodied broad-winged moth whose larvae are called
measuring worms [syn: {geometrid moth}]
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