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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 Neotropical genus consisting of sixty-one recognized species with a highly distinctive lineage of dioecious trees. The genus consists of pioneer trees in the more or less humid parts of the Neotropics, with the majority of the species being myrmecophytic. Berg and Rosselli state that the genus is characterized by some unusual traits: spathes fully enclosing the flower-bearing parts of the inflorescences until anthesis, patches of dense indumentums (trichilia) producing Mullerian (food) at the base of the petiole, and anthers becoming detached at anthesis. Cecropia is most studied for its ecological role and association with ants. Its classification is controversial; in the past it has been placed in the Cecropiaceae, Moraceae (the mulberry family), or Urticaceae (the nettle family). The modern Angiosperm Phylogeny Group system places the "cecropiacean" group in the Urticaceae.
The genus is native to the American tropics, where it is one of the most recognizable components of the rainforest. The genus is named after Cecrops I, the mythical first king of Athens. Common local names include yarumo or yagrumo, or more specifically yagrumo hembra ("female yagrumo") to distinguish them from the similar-looking but unrelated Schefflera (which are called yagrumo macho, "male yagrumo"). In English, these trees are occasionally called pumpwoods (though this may also refer to C. schreberiana specifically) or simply Cecropias. Spanish-speaking countries in Central American, Mexico, the Caribbean, Colombia and Ecuador commonly use the vernacular name, “guarumo”.
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, an albedo feature on Mars
- "Cecropia", a short story by Susan Hanniford Crowley, published in '' Sword and Sorceress XV
- Cecropia (company), a video game company
- Cecropia or Kekropia , an old name for the Acropolis of Athens
- Cecropia Moth, the North American moth species Hyalophora cecropia
- Cecropians/Cecropia Federation, an alien species and its faction in the Heritage Universe
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.