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Pleasant; jocose. [R.] The joyous and lepid consul. Sydney Smith.

An organic base, C9H6.N.CH3, metameric with quinaldine, and obtained by the distillation of cinchonine.

One of an extinct family of trees allied to the modern club mosses, and including Lepidodendron and its allies.

Allied to, or resembling, Lepidodendron. -- n.

A genus of fossil trees of the Devonian and Carboniferous ages, having the exterior marked with scars, mostly in quincunx order, produced by the separation of the leafstalks.

Any one of a division (Lepidoganoidei) of ganoid fishes, including those that have scales forming a coat of mail. Also used adjectively.

A species of mica, of a lilac or rose-violet color, containing lithia. It usually occurs in masses consisting of small scales. See Mica.

An iron-potash mica, of a raven-black color, usually found in granitic rocks in small six-sided tables, or as an aggregation of minute opaque scales. See Mica.

One of the Lepidoptera.

An order of insects, which includes the butterflies and moths. They have broad wings, covered with minute overlapping scales, usually brightly colored.

Of or pertaining to the Lepidoptera.

One who studies the Lepidoptera.

A division of reptiles, including the serpents and lizards; the Plagiotremata.

erica. The name is also applied to a related African species (Protopterus annectens). The lepidosirens grow to a length of from four to six feet. Called also doko.

Having a coat of scurfy scales, as the leaves of the oleaster.

Not having scales. -- n.

A tribe of Lepidoptera, including a vast number of minute species, as the plume moth, clothes moth, etc.

The spiral tubular proboscis of lepidopterous insects. See Lepidoptera.

A lepidopterous insect, which in the larval state often travels in great multitudes from field to field, destroying grass, grain, and other crops. The common army worm of the northern United States is Leucania unipuncta. The name is often applied to other related species, as the cotton worm.

An amateur collector and breeder of insects, esp. of butterflies and moths; a lepidopterist.