lepidopteran
noun, adjective
lepidopteran is a noun meaning “Any insect of the order Lepidoptera, the butterflies and moths” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-E-P-I-D-O-P-T-E-R-A-N, and it appears about once in every 34 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of lepidopteran is lepidopterans.
What does lepidopteran mean?
noun
- 1
Any insect of the order Lepidoptera, the butterflies and moths.
adjective
- 1
Characteristic of these insects.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of lepidopteran
- lepidopterans plural
- more lepidopteran comparative
- most lepidopteran superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is lepidopteran?
Lepidopteran appears about once in every 34 million words in written English, the 178,202nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does lepidopteran come from?
From Translingual Lepidoptera + English -an.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).