tinea noun. ['tɪnɪǝ] LME.
[Latin = gnawing worm or grub, moth, bookworm.]
1. Medicine. = RINGWORM. Freq. with mod. Latin specifying word, as tinea capitis ['kapɪtɪs] [Latin = of the head], tinea pedis ['pɛdɪs] [Latin = of the foot], etc. LME.

2. (Tinea.) Entomology. Orig., any of various destructive insects and other small creatures. Later spec. a moth of the genus Tinea, the larvae of which are very destructive to cloth, feathers, soft paper, decaying wood, museum specimens, etc., including some common clothes-moths. Now only as mod. Latin genus name. LME.

■ tineid adjective & noun (a) adjective of or pertaining to the family Tineidae of small moths, including clothes-moths; (b) noun a member of this family: M19.

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