Alypia

noun

Alyp·​ia

əˈlipēə

: a genus of diurnal moths having black wings with brilliant white spots and including the eight-spotted forester

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, perhaps from Greek, freedom from pain or grief, from alypos + -ia

First Known Use

1839, in the meaning defined above

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