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Definition of Lycaenid

1. Noun. Any of various butterflies of the family Lycaenidae.

Definition of Lycaenid

1. Noun. A member of the taxonomic family (term Lycaenidae). ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Lycaenid

Literary usage of Lycaenid

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1885)
"Now all lycaenid eggs known to me are covered with an elaborate and conspicuous lace- work, ... And the little larvae did not look like lycaenid larvae. ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1898)
"We have a spreading of the veins and abundant traces of unequal specialization. Except in the lycaenid reduction of the radial branches, ..."

3. Journal of the New York Entomological Society by New York Entomological Society (1913)
"... closed with a reference to a lycaenid from India tending aphids for the honey secreted and caressing them with the forelegs. ..."

4. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society by Bombay Natural History Society (1888)
"On the penultimate or twelfth segment of these lycaenid larvae on the ... much longer than in any other lycaenid larvae known to me, and furnished at the ..."

5. A Naturalist on Lake Victoria: With an Account of Sleeping Sickness and the by Geoffrey Douglas Hale Carpenter (1920)
"A curious lycaenid was found here, a large grey species with angulated wings.1 A feature of the island fauna was the number of long narrow cases of the ..."

6. Check List of the Lepidoptera of Boreal America by William Barnes, James Halliday McDunnough (1917)
"respond as far as possible with that advocated by Dr. Seitz in his Macrolepidoptera of the World ; we have revised the lycaenid and ..."

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