Definition of "lepidopteron" []

• An insect that in the adult state has four wings more or less covered with tiny scales. (noun)

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• "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."
• "I have sent the curious lepidopteron case to Mr. Meldola."
• "This is said to give the Brinjal plant resistance against lepidopteron insects like the Brinjal Fruit and Shoot Borer (Leucinodes orbonalis) and Fruit Borer (Helicoverpa armigera)."