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cecropias

cecropias is the plural of cecropia.

Meaning of cecropia

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...

Questions about cecropias

What is cecropias the plural of?
Cecropias is the plural of cecropia.

Words near cecropias in the dictionary

  1. cecoureteroceles
  2. cecropia
  3. cecropia moth
  4. cecropia moths
  5. cecropiaceous
  6. cecropias
  7. cecropin
  8. cecropins
  9. CECS
  10. cecum
  11. cecums

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