The Collaborative International Dictionary
lepidopterous
lepidopterous \lepidopterous\ a. See lepidopteral.
Wiktionary
lepidopterous
a. 1 Having scaly wings 2 Of, or pertaining to butterflies
WordNet
Usage examples of "lepidopterous".
The diminutive florets on its flat disk are so shallow that lepidopterous and hymenopterous insects, with their long proboses, stand no chance of getting a meal.
A lepidopterous torso, limbless and decapitated, yet fluttered about the line of combat, striking the unwary onto the outstretched grasp of the enemy, until someone sent it plummeting on sheared wings.