English

Noun

tineæ

1. (obsolete) plural form of tinea
   • 1832, Baron Cuvier, Edward Griffith and Edward Pidgeon, The Animal Kingdom, pages 610–611:

     Their caterpillars live in the same manner as many tineæ, in portable domiciles, consisting of a silky tube, on which they apply a morsel of a stalk, or small branches of vegetables, forming little bags, placed one above the other.