(n.) One of numerous genera and species of moths, of the family Geometridae; -- so called because their larvae (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.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) This is one of the first examples where a definite chemical substance is active for a geometrid species.
(3) By testing this compound in woods and orchards, we have found that it was also selectively attractive for males of a geometrid moth; Sterrha biselata.
(4) Telenomus alsophilae, a parasite of the eggs of the geometrid Alsophila pometaria in North America, was introduced into Columbia, South America, for the biological control of a pest host in another genus, Oxydia trychiata.
Inchworm
Definition:
(n.) The larva of any geometrid moth. See Geometrid.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cycle period and the distance traveled during a cycle are greater in inchworm than in vermiform crawling; however, the velocity of travel is the same for both (Fig.
(2) The instrument uses a fixed injector system driven by an Inchworm piezoelectric positioner or, in a low-cost version, by a Rainin EDP-2 battery-operated motorized pipette.
(3) Meanwhile, I've several hundred thousand inchworms on the property.
(4) There are two crawling variants: inchworm crawling, in which the head and tail suckers are closely apposed at the end of a cycle and the body forms a loop above the substrate, and vermiform crawling, in which the suckers are placed farther apart and the body remains fairly close to the substrate (Fig.
(5) A new method of nipple reconstruction called the "inchworm" flap is described.
(6) Rapid locomotion involves protrusion and growth of several pseudopodia, while the cell body remains in place, followed by attachment of these processes to an axonal surface, and finally detachment of the trailing portions of the cell as the entire cell hitches forward, "inchworm-style".