Word Meanings - MICROLEPIDOPTERA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A tribe of Lepidoptera, including a vast number of minute species, as the plume moth, clothes moth, etc.

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• NUMBERFUL
  Numerous.
• SPECIES
  A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes,
• TRIBE
  A number of species or genera having certain structural characteristics in common; as, a tribe of plants; a tribe of animals. Note: By many recent naturalists, tribe has been used for a group of animals or plants intermediate between order
• CLOTHESLINE
  A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.
• MINUTELY
  In a minute manner; with minuteness; exactly; nicely.
• CLOTHESHORSE
  A frame to hang clothes on.
• INCLUDED
  Inclosed; confined. Included stamens , such as are shorter than the floral envelopes, or are concealed within them.
• PLUME
  An ornamental tuft of feathers. 3. A feather, or group of feathers, worn as an ornament; a waving ornament of hair, or other material resembling feathers. His high plume, that nodded o'er his head. Dryden. 4. A token of honor or prowess; that on
• CLOTHESPIN
  A forked piece of wood, or a small spring clamp, used for fastening clothes on a line.
• PLUMERY
  Plumes, collectively or in general; plumage. Southey.
• NUMBERLESS
  Innumerable; countless.
• LEPIDOPTERA
  An order of insects, which includes the butterflies and moths. They have broad wings, covered with minute overlapping scales, usually brightly colored. Note: They have a tubular proboscis, or haustellum, formed by the two slender maxillæ.
• MINUTE
  1. The sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds. (Abbrev. m.; as, 4 h. 30 m.) Four minutes, that is to say, minutes of an hour. Chaucer. 2. The sixtieth part of a degree; sixty seconds ; as,
• PLUMELET
  A small plume. When rosy plumelets tuft the larch. Tennyson.
• MINUTEMAN
  A militiaman who was to be ready to march at a moment's notice; -- a term used in the American Revolution.
• CLOTHES
  1. Covering for the human body; dress; vestments; vesture; -- a general term for whatever covering is worn, or is made to be worn, for decency or comfort. She . . . speaks well, and has excellent good clothes. Shak. If I may touch but his clothes,
• NUMBER
  The distinction of objects, as one, or more than one (in some languages, as one, or two, or more than two), expressed by a difference in the form of a word; thus, the singular number and the plural number are the names of the forms of
• NUMBERS
  of Number. The fourth book of the Pentateuch, containing the census of the Hebrews.
• MINUTE-JACK
  1. A figure which strikes the hour on the bell of some fanciful clocks; -- called also jack of the clock house. 2. A timeserver; an inconstant person. Shak.
• MINUTENESS
  The quality of being minute.
• CEPHALOTRIBE
  An obstetrical instrument for performing cephalotripsy.
• BEDCLOTHES
  Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.
• SEMIPLUME
  A feather which has a plumelike web, with the shaft of an ordinary feather.
• DIATRIBE
  A prolonged or exhaustive discussion; especially, an acrimonious or invective harangue; a strain of abusive or railing language; a philippic. The ephemeral diatribe of a faction. John Morley.
• SUBTRIBE
  A division of a tribe; a group of genera of a little lower rank than a tribe.
• COMMINUTE
  To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth. Pennant. Comminuted fracture. See under Fracture.
• OUTNUMBER
  To exceed in number.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• ANTENUMBER
  A number that precedes another. Bacon.
• AMPERE HOUR; AMPERE MINUTE; AMPERE SECOND
  The quantity of electricity delivered in one hour by a current whose average strength is one ampère. It is used as a unit of quantity, and is equal to 3600 coulombs. The terms Ampère minute and Ampère second are sometimes similarly used.
• MISNUMBER
  To number wrongly.
• CORNIPLUME
  A hornlike tuft of feathers on the head of some birds.