Tinea
- n. A genus of small Lepidoptera, including the clothes moths and carpet moths.
- n. A name applied to various skin diseases, but especially to ringworm. See Ringworm, and Sycosis.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.