LEPIDOPTERA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lepidoptera mean? 

• LEPIDOPTERA (noun)
  The noun LEPIDOPTERA has 1 sense:

1. moths and butterflies

  Familiarity information: LEPIDOPTERA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEPIDOPTERA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Moths and butterflies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Lepidoptera; order Lepidoptera

Hypernyms ("Lepidoptera" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Lepidoptera"):

family Geometridae; Geometridae (measuring worms)

caterpillar (a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth)

family Lasiocampidae; Lasiocampidae (tent caterpillars; eggars; lappet moths)

Arctiidae; family Arctiidae (tiger moths)

family Saturniidae; Saturniidae (important and widely distributed family of moths including some of the largest insects known)

Bombycidae; family Bombycidae (Chinese silkworm moth)

family Sphingidae; Sphingidae (hawkmoths)

family Noctuidae; Noctuidae (cutworms; armyworms)

family Gelechiidae; Gelechiidae (important economic pests)

superfamily Tineoidea; Tineoidea (clothes moths; carpet moths; leaf miners)

family Pyralidae; family Pyralididae; Pyralidae; Pyralididae (bee moths; corn borers; flour moths)

family Lymantriidae; Lymantriidae (tussock moths)

family Tortricidae; Tortricidae (leaf rollers and codling moths)

family Lycaenidae; Lycaenidae (family of small usually brilliantly colored butterflies; males have short forelegs)

family Pieridae; Pieridae (arthropod family including cabbage butterflies; sulphur butterflies)

Danaidae; family Danaidae (small family of usually tropical butterflies: monarch butterflies)

family Satyridae; Satyridae (a widely distributed family of butterflies common near the edges of woods)

family Nymphalidae; Nymphalidae (large beautifully colored butterflies)

lepidopteran; lepidopteron; lepidopterous insect (insect that in the adult state has four wings more or less covered with tiny scales)

Holonyms ("Lepidoptera" is a member of...):

class Hexapoda; class Insecta; Hexapoda; Insecta (insects; about five-sixths of all known animal species)

 Context examples 

Peculiarly rich in the coleoptera and in the lepidoptera, forty-six new species of the one and ninety-four of the other had been secured in the course of a few weeks.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)