Word Meanings - LEPIDOPTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of the Lepidoptera.

Related words: (words related to LEPIDOPTER)

• LEPIDOPTERA
  An order of insects, which includes the butterflies and moths. They have broad wings, covered with minute overlapping scales, usually brightly colored. Note: They have a tubular proboscis, or haustellum, formed by the two slender maxillæ.
• LEPIDOPTERAL; LEPIDOPTEROUS
  Of or pertaining to the Lepidoptera.
• MICROLEPIDOPTERA
  A tribe of Lepidoptera, including a vast number of minute species, as the plume moth, clothes moth, etc.