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Lepidopteron   Listen
noun
lepidopteron  n.  An insect that in the adult state has four wings more or less covered with tiny scales.
Synonyms: lepidopterous insect, lepidopteran.





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... exception to this rule existed in the case of the fertilisation of the yucca blossoms by a little moth, Pronuba yuccasella. This little moth has a sickle-shaped appendage to its mouth-parts which occurs in no other Lepidopteron, and which is used for pushing the yellow pollen into the opening of the pistil, thus fertilising the flower. Thus it appears as if a new structure, which is useful only to the plant, has arisen in the insect. But the difficulty is solved ...
— Darwin and Modern Science • A.C. Seward and Others
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Words linked to "Lepidopteron" :   lepidopterous insect, moth, butterfly, insect, order Lepidoptera, Lepidoptera, lepidopteran


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