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Noun
cecropia (plural cecropias)
- A large saturniid moth native to North America, Hyalophora cecropia, having distinctive red, white and black markings on the wings
- Any tree of the genus Cecropia.
1824, Joh Bapt von Spix, C F Phil von Martius, Travels in Brazil, in the Years 1817-1820. Undertaken by Command of His Majesty the King of Bavaria., volume the first, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, , pages 207–208:Surrounded by lofty airy cassias, broad-leaved, white-stemmed cecropias, thick-crowned myrtles, large-flowered bignonias, climbing tufts of the mellifluous paullinias, far-spreading tendrils of the passion-flower, and of the richly flowering hatched coronilla, above which rise the waving summits of Macaubu palms, we fancied ourselves transported into the gardens of the Hesperides.
1910, “Brazil”, in The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information, 11th edition, volume IV, Cambridge: at the University Press, page 444, column 2:The chief characteristic of the Amazonian forest, aside from its magnitude, is the great diversity of genera and species. In the northern temperate zone we find forests of a single species, others of three or four species; in this great tropical forest the habit of growth is solitary and an acre of ground will contain hundreds of species—palms, myrtles, acacias, mimosas, cecropias, euphorbias, malvaceas, laurels, cedrellas, bignonias, bombaceas, apocyneas, malpigias, lecythises, swartzias, &c.
1961, Peter Matthiessen, The Cloud Forest: A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness, The Viking Press, page 33:[…]: the hopelessness of attemps at plant identification for anyone but a botanist resides in the fact that the flora of the Amazon basin is the most complex on earth; the majority of all plant species known to man are to be found in this vast forest, and Louis Agassiz once identified one hundred and seventeen distinct woods, including palms, myrtles, laurels, acacias, bignonias, rosewood, cecropias, bombaceas, Brazil-nuts or castanheiras, rubber, fig, and purplehearts, in an area a half-mile square.
1996, Erich Hoyt, The Earth Dwellers: Adventures in the Land of Ants, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 283:Also called the trumpet tree, cecropias are popular with many animal species for their leaves and fingerlike catkins, which turn to fruits.
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cecropia
- feminine singular of cecropio
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