Geometrid is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.
You can make 396 anagrams from letters in geometrid (deegimort).
1860-65; New Latin Geometridae, equivalent to Geometr(a) a genus name (see geometer; so called because the larva seems to measure the ground with its looping moti
As examples of special protective resemblance observe inch- or span-worms (larv of geometrid moths).
Among the Lepidoptera, we notice a reduction in the number of pro-legs in the 'looper' caterpillars of geometrid moths.
geometrid: larva which, when walking, alternately elevate and straighten the middle of their body: opposed to rectigrade; q.v.
The Desmoscolecida move by looping their bodies like geometrid caterpillars or leeches, as well as by creeping on their setae.
By some systematists this small group of moths is treated as a subfamily of the geometrid.
Rivulet, riv′ū-let, n. a small stream, brook: a geometrid moth.
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