noun. Any of numerous insects of the order Lepidoptera, having four broad, usually colorful wings, and generally distinguished from the moths by having a slender body and knobbed antennae and being active during the day.

noun. A person interested principally in frivolous pleasure.

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noun. A swimming stroke in which a swimmer lying face down draws both arms upward out of the water, thrusts them forward, and draws them back under the water in an hourglass design while performing a dolphin kick.

noun. A race or a leg of a race in which this stroke is swum.

noun. A feeling of unease or mild nausea caused especially by fearful anticipation.

transitive verb. To cut and spread open and flat, as shrimp.

noun. A local name for a mussel, Plagiola securis, found in the Mississippi river: so called from the shape of the valves. The shell is used in the pearl-button industry.

noun. The common English name of any diurnal lepidopterous insect; especially, one of the rhopalocerous Lepidoptera, corresponding to the old Linnean genus Papilio, called distinctively the butterflies. See Diurna, Rhopalocera, Lepidoptera, and Papilio.

noun. Figuratively, a person whose attention is given up to a variety of trifles of any kind; one incapable of steady application; a showily dressed, vain, and giddy person.

noun. A kind of flat made-up neck-tie.

noun. An herb otherwise called ragwort. Kersey, 1708.

noun. A general name for the numerous species of diurnal Lepidoptera.

noun. See under Asclepias.

noun. the ocellated blenny (Blennius ocellaris) of Europe. See Blenny. The term is also applied to the flying gurnard.

noun. a shell of the genus Voluta.

noun. a kind of double clack valve, consisting of two semicircular clappers or wings hinged to a cross rib in the pump bucket. When open it somewhat resembles a butterfly in shape.

noun. A use of surgical tape, cut into thin strips and placed across an open wound to hold it closed.

verb. To cut almost entirely in half and spread the halves apart, in a shape suggesting the wings of a butterfly.

verb. To cut strips of surgical tape or plasters into thin strips, and place across a gaping wound to close it.

noun. diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings

verb. talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions

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

verb. cut and spread open, as in preparation for cooking

"With an effort, he kept himself from using the term butterfly catchers, “... gentlemen.”"

Animals  English collective nouns  american copper butterfly  antiopa butterfly  argus butterfly  

buddleia  buddleja  butterflies in one’s stomach  butterfly banners  butterfly bat  

dart  fleet  flit  flutter  open  

ant  bat  bee  beetle  bird  

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butterflied  butterflies  butterflying