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De - Pt| English Dictionary: Lepidoptera | by the DICT Development Group |
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| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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d8Insecta \[d8]In*sec"ta\, n. pl. [NL. See {Insect}.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) One of the classes of Arthropoda, including those that have one pair of antenn[91], three pairs of mouth organs, and breathe air by means of trache[91], opening by spiracles along the sides of the body. In this sense it includes the Hexapoda, or six-legged insects and the Myriapoda, with numerous legs. See {Insect}, n. 2. (Zo[94]l.) In a more restricted sense, the Hexapoda alone. See {Hexapoda}. 3. (Zo[94]l.) In the most general sense, the Hexapoda, Myriapoda, and Arachnoidea, combined. Note: The typical Insecta, or hexapod insects, are divided into several orders, viz.: {Hymenoptera}, as the bees and ants; {Diptera}, as the common flies and gnats; {Aphaniptera}, or fleas; {Lepidoptera}, or moths and butterflies; {Neuroptera}, as the ant-lions and hellgamite; {Coleoptera}, or beetles; {Hemiptera}, as bugs, lice, aphids; {Orthoptera}, as grasshoppers and cockroaches; {Pseudoneuroptera}, as the dragon flies and termites; {Euplexoptera}, or earwings; {Thysanura}, as the springtails, podura, and lepisma. See these words in the Vocabulary. | |
