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LEPIDOPTERA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Moths and butterflies
Synonyms:
Lepidoptera; order Lepidoptera
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Lepidoptera" is a kind of...):
animal order (the order of animals)
Meronyms (members of "Lepidoptera"):
caterpillar (a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth)
family Lasiocampidae; Lasiocampidae (tent caterpillars; eggars; lappet moths)
Arctiidae; family Arctiidae (tiger moths)
family Saturniidae; Saturniidae (important and widely distributed family of moths including some of the largest insects known)
Bombycidae; family Bombycidae (Chinese silkworm moth)
family Sphingidae; Sphingidae (hawkmoths)
family Noctuidae; Noctuidae (cutworms; armyworms)
family Gelechiidae; Gelechiidae (important economic pests)
superfamily Tineoidea; Tineoidea (clothes moths; carpet moths; leaf miners)
family Pyralidae; family Pyralididae; Pyralidae; Pyralididae (bee moths; corn borers; flour moths)
family Geometridae; Geometridae (measuring worms)
family Lymantriidae; Lymantriidae (tussock moths)
family Tortricidae; Tortricidae (leaf rollers and codling moths)
family Lycaenidae; Lycaenidae (family of small usually brilliantly colored butterflies; males have short forelegs)
family Pieridae; Pieridae (arthropod family including cabbage butterflies; sulphur butterflies)
Danaidae; family Danaidae (small family of usually tropical butterflies: monarch butterflies)
family Satyridae; Satyridae (a widely distributed family of butterflies common near the edges of woods)
family Nymphalidae; Nymphalidae (large beautifully colored butterflies)
lepidopteran; lepidopteron; lepidopterous insect (insect that in the adult state has four wings more or less covered with tiny scales)
Holonyms ("Lepidoptera" is a member of...):
class Hexapoda; class Insecta; Hexapoda; Insecta (insects; about five-sixths of all known animal species)
