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Definition of Hairstreaks
1. hairstreak [n] - See also: hairstreak
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hairstreaks
Literary usage of Hairstreaks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern Nature Study: A First Book for Use in Canadian Schools by S. Silcox (1902)
"There are many varieties of it, and it is a type of a large group of butterflies,
known as the Blues, Coppers, and hairstreaks. The American Copper (expanse ..."
2. A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera: A Text-book for Students and by James William Tutt (1908)
"... of any other butterflies, so that we see there is much less uniformity in the
eggs of the " hairstreaks," than in those of the "coppers" and "blues. ..."
3. The New International Encyclopaedia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1906)
"The hairstreaks may be distinguished from the 'coppers' and 'blues' of the same
family by the fact that the radius of the fore wing is only three-branched. ..."
4. The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation by James William Tutt (1890)
"The new parts deal with the " hairstreaks " and the " Bines," will be of the same
exhaustive and ... The " hairstreaks " are completed in 12 parts. ..."
5. Library of Natural History by Richard Lydekker (1901)
"THE BLUES AND COPPERS — Family This large family, represented by many small
brightly-colored insects, include the blues, coppers, hairstreaks, ..."
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