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‖ tinea|ˈtɪniːə|
[L. tinea a gnawing worm, a moth, bookworm.]
1. Path. Technical name of the disease ringworm.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vii. iii. (Bodl. MS.) Þe heed is ofte dissesed with an yuel þatt children haue ofte..and we clepith þat yuel Tinea a moþþe, for it freeteþ and gnawith þe oure parties of þe skynne of þe heed as a moþþe freteþ clooþ. c1400Lanfranc's Cirurgie 181 Cirurgians.. clepid tineam þere þat þere is corrupcioun in þe skyn wiþ harde crustis & quytture. 1693tr. Blancard's Phys. Dict. (ed. 2) s.v., If running Sores in the Head..continue long..they grow into Tineas, crusty stinking Ulcers of the Head, which gnaw and consume its Skin. 1804Abernethy Surg. Obs. 169 A circle of small sores, like what takes place in tinea. 1862H. Macmillan in Macm. Mag. Oct. 466 Yeast..granules may be made to induce the ordinary parasitic skin diseases—a few germs rubbed into the head..producing..tinea.
2. (With capital initial.) Entom. Name given by Haworth to a genus of small moths (Microlepidoptera), the larvæ of which are very destructive to cloth, feathers, soft paper, decaying wood, stuffed birds, etc., examples of which are the common clothes-moths, T. tapetzella, and T. pellionella, and the very destructive pest in museums of natural history, T. destructor. In earlier times the word was applied to other destructive insects and worms.
1658Rowland Moufet's Theat. Ins. 1100 Pliny saith that Tineæ do destroy the seeds of Figs... Niphus cals that little Scorpion which eats books Tineas, whereof I spake in the history of Scorpions. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Tinea,..the Moth, an Insect that eats Clothes. Mod. The genus Tinea contains about 100 species, of which 15 were recorded as British in Rennie's Conspectus 1832.
Hence ˈtinean, ˈtineid a., of or belonging to the genus Tinea or family Tineidæ; n. a member of this genus or family.
1842T. W. Harris Insects Injurious to Vegetation 361 The Tineans..have four short and slender feelers. 1888Insect Life I. 191 These insects..are cloth-feeding Tineids. 1890Ibid. II. 330 The Tineid Leaf-miner..affects the younger leaves only. 1891Cent. Dict., Tinean, Tineid. 1924J. A. Thomson Science Old & New x. 55 There is a very interesting Tineid caterpillar, found in the tree-nest of one of the Termites. 1964Edwards & Heath Princ. Agric. Entom. xiii. 285 Corn moth..is one of the most common Tineid moths which attacks grain. |