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spec. As a name for various insects. A butterfly of the family Hesperiidæ.
A Hesperian butterfly; a skipper.
Entomology. (Also Hesperiid.) One of the family Hesperidæ or Hesperiidæ of lepidopterous insects; a Hesperian butterfly; a skipper. Also attributive.