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lep

lep noun: a butterfly or moth.

Noun (1)

lep (plural leps)

  1. (rare) A butterfly or moth.
    • Butterflies and moths belong to the insect order Lepidoptera (“leps” for short), which means “scale-wing.”2006, Lori A. Spencer, Don R. Simons, Arkansas Butterflies and Moths, page 3

Noun (2) capitalized: LEP

LEP (plural LEPs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of local enterprise partnership.
  2. (US, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of limited English proficient.

Proper noun capitalized: LEP

LEP

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Large Electron-Positron Collider.

Forms of lep

pluralleps
pluralLEPs

Origin of lep

Short for Lepidoptera.

Questions about lep

What does lep mean?
Lep means a butterfly or moth.
What part of speech is lep?
Lep can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of lep?
The plural of lep is leps.

Words near lep in the dictionary

  1. Leova
  2. Leoville
  3. Leovy
  4. Leovys
  5. Leow
  6. lep
  7. Lepa-Rada
  8. lepadid
  9. lepadids
  10. lepadiform
  11. lepadiforms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lep (page history and authors); LEP (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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