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Definitions of butterfly in various dictionaries:
noun - diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings
noun - a swimming stroke in which the arms are thrown forward together out of the water while the feet kick up and down
verb - flutter like a butterfly
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| The Viceroy type of this insect is protected by its resemblance to the bad-tasting Monarch |
| It's not a social insect like an ant, but it follows "social" to describe a person who gets around |
| A Clodius parnassian is one of these beautiful insects |
| Venezuela's Caligo memnon species of this insect has owl-like eyes on its wings to scare enemies |
| The comma type of this insect in the Nymphalidae family has orange wings with ragged edges |
| When Michael Phelps talks about the 200 fly, he means a race using this stroke |
| In cooking, to cut open & spread flat, as with shrimp or steak |
| The silvery blue, the spring azure & the common oakblue are blue-winged types of this beautiful insect |
| The ancient Greeks believed that the soul left the body after death in the form of this insect |
| (Sarah of the Clue Crew holds a skeletal armbone model at Sawbones.) For medical education, Sawbones makes bone models pre-fractured in common patterns; this fracture, where two cracks form a triangle, results from bending & is named for this insect |
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| a nectar-feeding insect with two pairs of large, typically brightly coloured wings that are covered with microscopic scales. Butterflies are distinguished from moths by having clubbed or dilated antennae, holding their wings erect when at rest, and being active by day. |
| Split (a piece of meat or fish) almost in two and spread it out flat. |
| A stroke in swimming in which both arms are raised out of the water and lifted forwards together. |
| A nectar-feeding insect with two pairs of large, typically brightly coloured wings that are covered with microscopic scales. Butterflies are distinguished from moths by having clubbed or dilated antennae, holding their wings erect when at rest, and being active by day. |
| diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings |
| talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions |
| cut and spread open, as in preparation for cooking |
| flutter like a butterfly |
| a swimming stroke in which the arms are thrown forward together out of the water while the feet kick up and down |
| To cut and spread open and flat, as shrimp. |
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Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprises the large superfamily Papilionoidea, which contains at least one former group, the skippers (formerly the superfamily "Hesperioidea") and the most recent analyses suggest it also contains the moth-butterflies (formerly the superfamily "Hedyloidea"). Butterfly fossils date to the Paleocene, which was about 56 million years ago. * Butterflies have the typical four-stage insect life cycle. Winged adults lay eggs on the food plant on which their larvae, known as caterpillars, will feed. The caterpillars grow, sometimes very rapidly, and when fully developed, pupate in a chrysalis. When metamorphosis is complete, the pupal skin splits, the adult insect climbs out, and after its wings have expanded and dried, it flies off. Some butterflies, especially in the |