Definition of Nymphalids

1. nymphalid [n] - See also: nymphalid

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nymphalids

nylon
nylon stocking
nylonase
nylons
nym
nymph
nymph of the pavé
nymphae
nymphaea
nymphaeum
nymphales
nymphalid
nymphalids (current term)
nymphean
nymphetic
nymphetry
nymphets
nymphette
nymphettes
nymphic
nymphical
nymphid
nymphine
nymphiparous
nymphish

Literary usage of Nymphalids

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation by James William Tutt, Malcolm Burr (1890)
"The nymphalids have two fore-media ... and nymphalids, etc., have one hind anal ... nymphalids, etc., have arisen more directly from the ..."

2. A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera: A Text-book for Students and by James William Tutt (1908)
"It would be absurd, for example, to suppose that gregarious nymphalids (Melitaea, ... nymphalids arose together, and in the mass are solitary, and so, ..."

3. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1901)
"In the nymphalids, where the ... These remains, though too few.to be decisive, favour the author's view, as to the butterflies, that the nymphalids and ..."

4. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1900)
"One feature, however, which assists my ideas is that the tertiary deposits have yielded a larger proportion of nymphalids. We might naturally expect, ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1895)
"... and nymphalids; rather should the ... and nymphalids quite independently. Another point is that the ..."

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