Lexicographical Neighbors of Bombycoid
Literary usage of Bombycoid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1850)
"The second tribe of the bombycoid Nocturnal Lepidoptera is termed Vera, and
consists of the remainder of the Saturnia (S. Pavonia, Pyri, &c. ..."
2. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1849)
"The second tribe of the bombycoid Nocturnal Lepidoptera is termed ... &c. ; and
the third tribe of the bombycoid Lepidoptera being composed of Hepialus, ..."
3. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington by Entomological Society of Washington (1904)
"... the rounds of the electric lights in Kaslo and visiting the electric-light
plant at the creek. The bombycoid moths, which are not attracted to sugar, ..."
4. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Entomological Section (1894)
"The head, a? a whole, is generally large, prominent and free, though in the
bombycoid forms there is a strong tendency to retraction and smallness, ..."
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