papil1o

[Lat.] *1. Ord . Lang .: A butterfly. "Conjecture cannot estimate all the kinds of papilios natives of this island, to fall short of three hundred." Ray : On the Creation. 2. Entom.: The typical genus of the family Papilio nide. It has long antenne and very short palpi. About 500 species are known, many of them from Africa and the Eastern Archipelago. pa-pil-i-o-nā-çě-æ, s. pl. [Lat. papilio, gen it. papilion ( is ); fom. pl. adj. suff.- aceœ.] Bot.: An order of plants founded by Linnæus, now reduced to a sub-order of Fabacere. [LEGUMIN OSE.] The flowers are papilionaceous (q. v.), the petals imbricated inæstivation, the upper one exterior. Most species of the sub-order are beautiful; the seeds of many are very nutritious to man, while