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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(archaic) The practice of attracting male butterflies or other insects by exposing the encaged female. It used to be done by collectors wanting to procure specimens..
time of sembling birds' droppings
Upon this is founded the practice of sembling, as it is called by the London collectors, among whom, as we learn from Barbut and Harris, it has been long in use, for entrapping the males of the fox-moth […]
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Sembling means (archaic) The practice of attracting male butterflies or other insects by exposing the encaged female. It used to be done by collectors wanting to procure specimens..
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time of sembling birds' droppings
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