Lepidoptera
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- Noun:
- moths and butterflies
Word Origin
- Lepidoptera (n.)
- 1773, "insects with four scaly wings," the biological classification that includes butterflies and moths, coined 1735 in Modern Latin by Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus (Karl von Linné, 1707-1778) from Greek lepido-, comb. form of lepis (genitive lepidos) "(fish) scale" (related to lepein "to peel;" see leper) + pteron "wing, feather" (see pterodactyl).
Example
- 1. The chromosome analysis of 7 insect cell lines from lepidoptera .
- 2. Butterflies , moths , and were classified as lepidoptera , hesperiidae .
- 3. It should be noted that bacillus thuringiensis also has been found to be active against a wide range of target organisms in addition to the lepidoptera .
- 4. Any of various insects of the order lepidoptera , characteristically having slender bodies , knobbed antennae , and four broad , usually colorful wings .
- 5. Ultrastructural comparisons among male external genitalias of four luehdorfia species ( lepidoptera : papilionidae )