family lycaenidae

English Thesaurus

1. family of small usually brilliantly colored butterflies; males have short forelegs (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	arthropod family,
definition	:	any of the arthropods (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	lycaenid, lycaenid butterfly,
definition	:	any of various butterflies of the family Lycaenidae (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	genus lycaena, lycaena,
definition	:	type genus of the Lycaenidae; small slender butterflies with upper surface of wings usually metallic blue or green or copper (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	genus strymon, strymon,
definition	:	large and widely distributed genus of hairstreak butterflies (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	lepidoptera, order lepidoptera,
definition	:	moths and butterflies (noun.animal)