nymphalid
/nɪmˈfalɪd
/noun Entomology
An insect of a large family of strikingly marked butterflies which have small forelegs that are not used for walking, including many familiar butterflies of temperate regions. Compare with vanessid.
- Family Nymphalidae (sometimes restricted to those that are now usually placed in the subfamily Nymphalinae).
- Furthermore, these gene duplications evolved after the split between the common ancestor of nymphalid and papilionid butterflies.
- Like many nymphalid, papilionid, and hesperiid butterflies, male H. bolina occupy and defend perching sites in forest clearings and along flight paths as a means of maximizing their encounters with receptive females.
Origin
Late 19th century: from modern Latin Nymphalidae, from Latin nympha 'nymph'.
- monomode
- monomolecular
- monomolecularly
- monomorphemic
- monomorphic
- monomorphically
- monomorphism
- monomorphous
- Monomoy
- monomyarian
- monomyth
- Monongahela River
- mononitrate
- mono no aware
- mononomial
- mononuclear
- mononucleate
- mononucleated
- mononucleosis
- mononucleotide
- mono-olein
- monooxygenase
- monopalmitin
- monoped
- monopede