Sentence examples for geometrid from inspiring English sources

The best documented temporal shift in selection is the industrial melanism of noctuid and geometrid moths in England and Europe.

The larvae of geometrid moths are called by a variety of common names, including inchworm, cankerworm, looper, and measuring worm.

Because of their distinctive larvae, the name measuring worm moth is sometimes applied to certain members of the Geometridae (see geometrid moth).

The British comma butterfly has moved 137 miles northward in the past two decades, while geometrid moths on Mount Kinabalu in Borneo have shifted uphill by 59 metres in 42 years.

The Adoration of the Magi, for example, depicted three pipe-cleaner-like shapes, one of them with three heads, abasing themselves before a geometrid representation of Mary, who bears a small circle in her hands.

Geometrid moth (family Geometridae), any member of a group of moths (order Lepidoptera) that includes the species commonly known as pug, wave, emerald, and carpet moths.

Adult geometrids have slender bodies and broad wings.