lepidopterous insect

Questions about lepidopterous insect

What does lepidopterous insect mean?

lepidopterous insect means "insect that in the adult state has four wings more or less covered with tiny scales".

What is another word for lepidopterous insect?

Close synonyms include lepidopteron, lepidopteran. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lepidopterous insect a common word?

lepidopterous insect is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.