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lepidopter Ent.|lɛpɪˈdɒptə(r)| [ad. mod.L. Lepidoptera (see next).] One of the Lepidoptera.
1828in Webster. 1863Dana Geol. 420 note, Lepidopters have large wings covered with minute scales; as the Butter⁓fly and Moth. 1881Elwes tr. De S. Pinto's How I crossed Afr. I. v. 120 This gigantic lepidopter, when young, feeds upon the grasses. |