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from The Century Dictionary.
- A suborder of Lepidoptera, founded by Boisduval (1840), containing the nocturnal lepidopters or moths: contrasted with Rhopalocera or butterflies.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) A division of Lepidoptera, including the moths, and hawk moths, which have the antennæ variable in form.
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