Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An insect that in the adult state has four wings more or less covered with tiny scales.
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- noun insect that in the adult state has four wings more or less covered with tiny scales
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My mother was a great gardener, creating with her endless harmonies of flowers a giant, benign moth-trap and a butterfly Eden in which I flapped my net about like a lepidopteron myself.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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My mother was a great gardener, creating with her endless harmonies of flowers a giant, benign moth-trap and a butterfly Eden in which I flapped my net about like a lepidopteron myself.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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I have sent the curious lepidopteron case to Mr. Meldola.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845
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This is said to give the Brinjal plant resistance against lepidopteron insects like the Brinjal Fruit and Shoot Borer (Leucinodes orbonalis) and Fruit Borer (Helicoverpa armigera).
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