lycaena hypophlaeas

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   common copper butterfly of central and eastern North America

   SynonymsAmerican copper

   Broadercopper

   Part ofLycaena

Questions about lycaena hypophlaeas

What does lycaena hypophlaeas mean?

lycaena hypophlaeas means "common copper butterfly of central and eastern North America".

What is another word for lycaena hypophlaeas?

Close synonyms include American copper. 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 lycaena hypophlaeas a common word?

lycaena hypophlaeas 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.