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Cabbage butterfly   Listen
noun
cabbage butterfly  n.  (Zoöl.), A white butterfly (Pieris rapae of both Europe and America, and the allied Pieris oleracea, a native American species) which, in the larval state, devours the leaves of the cabbage and the turnip. See also Cabbage worm, below.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Cabbage butterfly" Quotes from Famous Books



... buzz-z-z of an August noon. A cabbage butterfly sailed by. The creature's insufferable airs annoyed him. The fate of Nelson, the life of a noble lad, these were nothing to it, curse it ...
— The Gentleman - A Romance of the Sea • Alfred Ollivant

... ours leaves off. The drums and tubes of insects' ears are very minute. What would to us be a continuous sound is to them a series of separate blows. We begin to hear blows as continuous sounds when they amount to about thirty a second. The house-fly has about four thousand eye-lenses; the cabbage butterfly, and the dragon-fly, about seventeen thousand; and some species of beetles have twenty-five thousand. We cannot begin to think in what an agitated world the insect lives, thrilling and vibrating to a degree that would drive us insane. If we possessed the same microscopic gifts, how would ...
— Under the Maples • John Burroughs



Words linked to "Cabbage butterfly" :   family Pieridae, Pieris protodice, small white, pierid, Pieris brassicae, Pieris rapae



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