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North American silkworm moth
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cecropia
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n. A silkworm moth, ''Hyalophora cecropia'', native to North America, having red white and black markings
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Cecropia is a term derived from the Ancient Greek κέκρωψ ( kékrōps , Latinized : cecrops ) which means "face with a tail" and refers to the mythical first king of Athens . "Cecropia" can refer to: Cecropia , a genus of trees from the American tropics Cecropia, ...
Usage examples of cecropia.
The bottom of the display no longer ended in the usual place, at the lower boundary of the Cecropia Federation.
They consider a Cecropia or a Polyphemus an insult, and a Luna is barely acceptable.
After them from Cecropia came warlike Butes, son of brave Teleon, and Phalerus of the ashen spear.
No one in the Fourth Alliance, or in the Cecropia Federation whose boundary lay much closer to the Gulf, knew that those Bose nodes were there.
She says, long ago, members of the Cecropia Federation interested in Builder artifacts did a complete survey of all knowledge of the Sag Arm relating to possible Builder activity there.
Dobelle and into the beginnings of the galactic region dominated by the Cecropia Federation.
Of the various trees from which India-rubber is procured, such as the Ficus prinoides, the Castilioa elastica, the Cecropia peltata, the Callophora utilis, the Cameraria latifolia, and especially the Siphonia elastica, all of which abound in the provinces of South America, not a single specimen was to be seen.
Their guide, heartened by the good audience response, points out more funny trees - the dynamite tree, Hura crepitans, whose fruit explodes when it is ripe, and the very rare Cecropia of South America, the sloth tree, indeed the only mature Cecropia palmata in the United States, whose leaves have the texture of chamois skin and never disintegrate.
After them from Cecropia came warlike Butes, son of brave Teleon, and Phalerus of the ashen spear.
Thracian Boreas snatched her away from Cecropia as she was whirling in the dance, hard by Hissus' stream.