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cecropia

cecropia noun: a large saturniid moth native to North America, Hyalophora cecropia, having distinctive red, white and black markings on the wings.

Noun

cecropia (plural cecropias)

  1. A large saturniid moth native to North America, Hyalophora cecropia, having distinctive red, white and black markings on the wings
  2. Any tree of the genus Cecropia.
    • Surrounded by lofty airy cassias, broad-leaved, white-stemmed cecropias, thick-crowned myrtles, large-flowered bignonias, climbing tufts of the mellifluous paullinias, far-spreading tendrils of the passion-flower, and of the richly flowering hatched coronilla, above which rise the waving summits of...1824, Joh[ann] Bapt[ist] von Spix, C[arl] F[riedrich] Phil[ipp] von Martius, Travels in Brazil, in the Years 1817-1820. Undertaken by Command of His Majesty the King of Bavaria., volume the first...
    • The chief characteristic of the Amazonian forest, aside from its magnitude, is the great diversity of genera and species. In the northern temperate zone we find forests of a single species, others of three or four species; in this great tropical forest the habit of growth is solitary and an acre of...1910, “Brazil”, in The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information, 11th edition, volume IV, Cambridge: at the University Press, page 444, column 2

Proper noun capitalized: Cecropia

the Cecropia

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of Kekropia.

Forms of cecropia

pluralcecropias

Words formed from cecropia

Phrases with cecropia

Questions about cecropia

What does cecropia mean?
Cecropia means a large saturniid moth native to North America, Hyalophora cecropia, having distinctive red, white and black markings on the wings.
What part of speech is cecropia?
Cecropia can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of cecropia?
The plural of cecropia is cecropias.

Words near cecropia in the dictionary

  1. cecotroph
  2. cecotrophs
  3. cecotrophy
  4. cecoureterocele
  5. cecoureteroceles
  6. cecropia
  7. cecropia moth
  8. cecropia moths
  9. cecropiaceous
  10. cecropias
  11. cecropin

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