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geometrid(dictionary)
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Douglass, Frederick(dictionary)
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Douglass, Frederick (oh) and geometrid (medicine)


Douglass, Frederick (oh)



(1817-95) a former slave in the US, who worked to get rid of slavery (=the practice of having slaves) , and wrote a book about his life

geometrid (medicine)


geometrid
<zoology> Pertaining or belonging to the Geometridae.

<zoology> 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.

Source: Websters Dictionary