“+ noun plural
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from macr- + Lepidoptera
in some especially former classifications : a major division of Lepidoptera comprising the butterflies and the noctuid, bombycid, sphingid, and geometrid moths together with certain related moths and including most of the large lepidopters and none of the minute forms — now usually used descriptively without taxonomic implications and then often not capitalized; compare microlepidoptera
• mac·ro·lepidopterous “+ adjective