lepidopterous
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The diminutive florets on its flat disk are so shallow that lepidopterous and hymenopterous insects, with their long proboses, stand no chance of getting a meal.
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie
I greatly fear," he continued, "that the omission to which I have reluctantly adverted is to a certain extent typically characteristic of the entire political and social economy of the lepidopterous order.
From The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales by Richard Garnett
Scintilla, sin-til′a, n. a spark: a glimmer: the least particle: a trace: a genus of bivalve molluscs: a genus of lepidopterous insects.—adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Grape vines are subject to the attacks of many lepidopterous insects.
From American Pomology Apples by J. A. Warder
That his exquisite brochure on lepidopterous insects was in nearly all the public libraries of the world only gratified, but added nothing to his vanity.
From A Splendid Hazard by Harold MacGrath
