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Definition of Geometrids
1. geometrid [n] - See also: geometrid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Geometrids
Literary usage of Geometrids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern Nature Study: A First Book for Use in Canadian Schools by S. Silcox (1902)
"... with one accord to another, thus forming a sort of army, which, however, is
more like a mob, as there is no discipline in the ranks. (3) THE geometrids ..."
2. A Manual on the Study of Insects by John Henry Comstock, Anna Botsford Comstock (1895)
"There isa group of moths, the Deltoids, which are placed at the foot of this
family on account of their apparent relationship to the geometrids and to the ..."
3. A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera: A Text-book for Students and by James William Tutt (1899)
"With this group the higher geometrids and ... The eggs of geometrids offer many
remarkable modifications in their sculpture, from the almost smooth egg of ..."
4. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1904)
"When any of these smaller moths, such as the geometrids mentioned below and ...
There are several other boreal or Arctic geometrids similarly marked, ..."
5. The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation by James William Tutt, Malcolm Burr (1890)
"The Fauna of the London List," is carried on throughout the Noctuids, Deltoids
and a part of the geometrids. The nomenclature used will probably ..."
6. Papilio by New York Entomological Club (1881)
"... American Moths 99 New Arizona and Texan Moths 131 Notes on Certain geometrids,
... 94 Some Notes and Queries About Moths 170 Two New geometrids from Mr. ..."
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