lepidoptera
English Thesaurus
1. moths and butterflies (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | animal order, |
| definition | : | the order of animals (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | lepidopteran, lepidopteron, lepidopterous insect, |
| definition | : | insect that in the adult state has four wings more or less covered with tiny scales (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | family nymphalidae, nymphalidae, |
| definition | : | large beautifully colored butterflies (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | family satyridae, satyridae, |
| definition | : | a widely distributed family of butterflies common near the edges of woods (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | danaidae, family danaidae, |
| definition | : | small family of usually tropical butterflies: monarch butterflies (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | family pieridae, pieridae, |
| definition | : | arthropod family including cabbage butterflies; sulphur butterflies (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | family lycaenidae, lycaenidae, |
| definition | : | family of small usually brilliantly colored butterflies; males have short forelegs (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | family tortricidae, tortricidae, |
| definition | : | leaf rollers and codling moths (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | family lymantriidae, lymantriidae, |
| definition | : | tussock moths (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | family geometridae, geometridae, |
| definition | : | measuring worms (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | family pyralidae, family pyralididae, pyralidae, pyralididae, |
| definition | : | bee moths; corn borers; flour moths (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | superfamily tineoidea, tineoidea, |
| definition | : | clothes moths; carpet moths; leaf miners (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | family gelechiidae, gelechiidae, |
| definition | : | important economic pests (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | family noctuidae, noctuidae, |
| definition | : | cutworms; armyworms (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | family sphingidae, sphingidae, |
| definition | : | hawkmoths (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | bombycidae, family bombycidae, |
| definition | : | Chinese silkworm moth (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | family saturniidae, saturniidae, |
| definition | : | important and widely distributed family of moths including some of the largest insects known (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | arctiidae, family arctiidae, |
| definition | : | tiger moths (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | family lasiocampidae, lasiocampidae, |
| definition | : | tent caterpillars; eggars; lappet moths (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | caterpillar, |
| definition | : | a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | class hexapoda, class insecta, hexapoda, insecta, |
| definition | : | insects; about five-sixths of all known animal species (noun.animal) |
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