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Lycaenidae

noun

family of small usually brilliantly colored butterflies; males have short forelegs

• Syn: ↑family Lycaenidae

• Hypernyms: ↑arthropod family

• Member Holonyms: ↑Lepidoptera, ↑order Lepidoptera

• Member Meronyms: ↑lycaenid, ↑lycaenid butterfly, ↑Lycaena, ↑genus Lycaena, ↑Strymon, ↑genus Strymon

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\\-nəˌdē\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Lycaena, type genus + -idae

: a family of small often brilliantly colored butterflies having the forelegs short in the male and including the blues, coppers, and hairstreaks

Useful english dictionary. 2012.