Translingual

Hesperia comma

Proper noun

Hesperia f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Hesperiidae – the branded skippers.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Insecta - class; Dicondylia - clade; Pterygota - subclass; Metapterygota - clade; Neoptera - infraclass; Eumetabola, Endopterygota - clades; Panorpida - superorder; Amphiesmenoptera - clade; Lepidoptera - order; Glossata - suborder; Heteroneura - infraorder; Ditrysia - division; Cossina - section; Bombycina - subsection; Papilionoidea - superfamily; Hesperiiformes - series; Hesperiidae - family; Hesperiinae - subfamily; Hesperiini - tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Hesperia comma - type species
  • Hesperia assiniboia, Hesperia attalus, Hesperia colorado, Hesperia juba, Hesperia lindseyi, Hesperia metea, Hesperia nabokovi, Hesperia uncas, Hesperia viridis, Hesperia woodgatei - species

English

Proper noun

Hesperia

1. Literally "western land", a term poetically applied by Ancient Greeks to Italy and by Romans to the Iberian Peninsula and Western Africa.
2. (Greek mythology) One of the Hesperides.
3. (astronomy) Short for 69 Hesperia, a main belt asteroid.
4. A city in southern California.
5. A village in Michigan.

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