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Cecropia

noun
1.
Large genus of tropical American trees that yield a bast fiber used for cordage and bark used in tanning; milky juice yields caoutchouc.  Synonym: genus Cecropia.
2.
North American silkworm moth; larvae feed on the leaves of forest trees.  Synonyms: cecropia moth, Hyalophora cecropia.



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Cecropiaceae
family Cecropiaceae


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"Cecropia" Quotes from Famous Books



... of Cecropia, aunt to the Princesses, both were carried away, with Zelmane, and imprisoned in her castle in the hope that Philoclea would favour the suit of her cousin Amphialus, Crecropia's son. But Philoclea remained faithful to her love for ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol VIII • Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds.
... of the caterpillars are ugly and formidable, poor things, to the uninitiated eye, which fails to recognize under this uncomely disguise the crowned and glorious citizens of the air. I had just then a great Cecropia, an able-bodied green gentleman armed with twelve thorn-like, sizable horns, and wearing, along with other agreeable adornments, three yellow and four red arrangements like growths of dwarf cactus plants on the segments behind ...
— Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man • Marie Conway Oemler


Words linked to "Cecropia" :   saturniid, saturniid moth, dicot genus, trumpet tree, trumpet-wood, trumpetwood, snake wood, imbauba, magnoliopsid genus


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