Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In entomology, having scaly wings; specifically, pertaining to the Lepidoptera, or having their characters. Also lepidopteral, lepidopteran.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective See
lepidopteral .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, or pertaining to
butterflies
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Examples
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Of course, not everyone Mr. Pyle meets out on the road shares his interest in the lepidopterous fauna.
Butterfly Quest Harry Zirlin 2010
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Gray, Esq. F.R.S. Description of some new australian lepidopterous insects, by Edward
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Gray, Esq. F.R.S. Description of some new australian lepidopterous insects, by Edward
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Nicaraguan neem pesticides can effectively control aphids, lepidopterous pests and white fly.
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From numerous field trials (notably on various moths), it appears that larvae of most lepidopterous pests are highly sensitive to neem.
5 Effects on Insects 1992
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Paraclypeal piece: in lepidopterous pupa, occurs in some of the generalized families on each side of the maxillary palpi.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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The diminutive florets on its flat disk are so shallow that lepidopterous and hymenopterous insects, with their long proboses, stand no chance of getting a meal.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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Rev.Mr. Bree once had a whole collection of lepidopterous insects utterly spoiled from having been deposited in cedar drawers; and he has understood, also, that the insects in the British Museum, collected, he believes, chiefly by Dr. Leach, have been greatly injured from the same cause.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 549 (Supplementary number) Various
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For one rapidly transitional moment street-car traffic in St. Louis stood in three simultaneous stages of its lepidopterous development: a caterpillar horse-car system crawled north and south along Jefferson
Star-Dust Fannie Hurst 1928
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The lepidopterous caterpillar, in our countries at least, has never more than five pairs of pro-legs, situated on the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and tenth abdominal segments; each of these pro-legs bears a number of minute hooklets, arranged in a circular or crescentic pattern, which assist the caterpillar in clinging to its food-plant.
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