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LEPIDOPTERAN (lepidoptera)
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lepidopteran mean?
• LEPIDOPTERAN (noun)
The noun LEPIDOPTERAN has 1 sense:
1. insect that in the adult state has four wings more or less covered with tiny scales
Familiarity information: LEPIDOPTERAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Insect that in the adult state has four wings more or less covered with tiny scales
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
lepidopteran; lepidopteron; lepidopterous insect
Hypernyms ("lepidopteran" is a kind of...):
insect (small air-breathing arthropod)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lepidopteran"):
butterfly (diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings)
moth (typically crepuscular or nocturnal insect having a stout body and feathery or hairlike antennae)
Holonyms ("lepidopteran" is a member of...):
Lepidoptera; order Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies)
Context examples
A family of double-stranded DNA viruses that replicate in lepidopteran larvae.
(Baculoviridae, NCI Thesaurus)
Peculiarly rich in the coleoptera and in the lepidoptera, forty-six new species of the one and ninety-four of the other had been secured in the course of a few weeks.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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