English Dictionary

cecropia

noun

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.

The cecropia moth is one of the largest moths in North America.

意味（1）

A large saturniid moth native to North America, Hyalophora cecropia, having distinctive red, white and black markings on the wings

意味（2）

Any tree of the genus Cecropia.

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.