NOUN
- any of various moths with long narrow forewings capable of powerful flight and hovering over flowers to feed
How To Use sphingid In A Sentence
- More than one half of the sphingids presented pollen from only one or two species of plants.
- The majority of species are active in the late evening or in the darkness of the night, and sphingids were assumed to use olfaction rather than vision to find and recognise flowers.
- Pittaway is a well travelled lepidopterist with a passion for sphingids.
- The terms Sesiinae and Sesiicae were rejected because the type genus of these taxa is not a sphingid.
- He inferred from this that both sphingids and hummingbirds are approaching the limit of aerodynamic performance for animals in their size range.
