lepidopterous insect

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Noun

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lepidopterous insect - insect that in the adult state has four wings more or less covered with tiny scaleslepidopteran, lepidopteroninsect - small air-breathing arthropodLepidoptera, order Lepidoptera - moths and butterfliesbutterfly - diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wingsmoth - typically crepuscular or nocturnal insect having a stout body and feathery or hairlike antennae