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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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| Winged monarch (9) |
| During one year, 1802, Wordsworth wrote 3 poems about this beautiful winged insect |
| 1988:"M. ____" |
| (Sarah of the Clue Crew lets a deck hand do the dirty work on a shrimp boat in Savannah, GA.) A technique to cut open shrimp to take out the intestine shares its name with this diurnal insect |
| The name of the papillon means this; a drop-eared type is called phalene, "moth" |
| Oregon's state insect is the swallowtail, a type of this |
| Swallowtail, viceroy & monarch are types of this pretty insect |
| In French, it's the poetic papillon; in Spanish, the evocative mariposa; in German, Schmetterling |
| For a well done filet mignon, do this "insect" cooking term that means to cut down the center almost completely |
| The Tiger Swallowtail & Zebra Swallowtail are species of 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 |