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n. An insect that in the adult state has four wings more or less covered with tiny scales.

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

"My mother was a great gardener, creating with her endless harmonies of flowers a giant, benign moth-trap and a butterfly Eden in which I flapped my net about like a lepidopteron myself."

insect   

butterfly    moth   

lepidopterous insect    lepidopteran