lepidoptera
lepidoptera — 名詞
1. a major group of flying insects — among them butterflies, moths, and skipper but
鱗翅目
包含蝴蝶與蛾類的昆蟲目
a major group of flying insects — among them butterflies, moths, and skipper butterflies — whose four wide wings carry a covering of tiny scales set like overlapping tiles
Hari's biology class studied the Lepidoptera order, focusing on local butterfly species.
Hari 的生物課研究了鱗翅目，重點放在當地蝴蝶物種上。
modifier use: Lepidoptera order
The museum's Lepidoptera collection included over two hundred pinned moth specimens.
博物館的鱗翅目收藏包含兩百多隻固定好的蛾類標本。
Among the Lepidoptera, few insects match the monarch butterfly's long migration.
在鱗翅目中，很少有昆蟲能比得上帝王斑蝶的長途遷徙。
Nellie learned that Lepidoptera scales are what give butterfly wings their bright colours.
Nellie 學到鱗翅目的鱗片是賦予蝴蝶翅膀鮮豔色彩的來源。
A single Lepidoptera caterpillar can eat several times its body weight each day.
一隻鱗翅目幼蟲每天可以吃掉自身體重好幾倍的葉子。
- butterflies and moths
everyday-language equivalent covering most Lepidoptera, though it excludes skippers
用法筆記
Always written with a capital L and treated as a plural noun. In everyday English, speakers generally use 'butterflies and moths' instead of this scientific term.