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butterfly

Definition

  • noun: a kind of insect that has a long thin body and brightly colored wings and that flies mostly during the day
  • noun: any of numerous slender-bodied diurnal lepidopteran insects including one superfamily (Papilionoidea) with broad often brightly colored wings and usually another superfamily comprising the skippers
  • synonyms: lep

Examples

  • They competed in the 'butterfly'.

  • swimmers doing the 'butterfly'

  • a 'social butterfly'

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) - You should. - Sit down. Friends, you saw enter here a waif, a gamin, a lowly caterpillar. We open the cocoon but it is not a butterfly that emerges. - It's not? - No, it is a bird of paradise. Lights! Curtain! Oh... (..)
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