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from The Century Dictionary.
- A division of insects, containing those with suctorial mouth-parts and a spiral tongue between reflexed palpi, corresponding to the order Lepidoptera. Fabricius.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) The Lepidoptera.
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