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Butterfly   /bˈətərflˌaɪ/   Listen
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Butterfly  n.  (pl. butterflies)  (Zool.) A general name for the numerous species of diurnal Lepidoptera.
Asclepias butterfly. See under Asclepias.
Butterfly fish (Zool.), the ocellated blenny (Blennius ocellaris) of Europe. See Blenny. The term is also applied to the flying gurnard.
Butterfly shell (Zool.), a shell of the genus Voluta.
Butterfly valve (Mech.), 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.






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"Butterfly" Quotes from Famous Books



... thinking of, dear fellow. I never heard him in my life talk so brilliantly as he did one afternoon stretched on the sand by Margarita, while she fed him wild strawberries from her lap and embroidered the most beautiful butterfly on the lapel of his old velveteen jacket, and Roger tried to ride in on the breakers like ...
— Margarita's Soul - The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty • Ingraham Lovell

... about ten years old. Now do you see her? Isn't she pretty? How the sparkles come and go in her eyes! Wouldn't you like to have a romp with her in the new-mown hay? For she hasn't any more rheumatism in her back than a butterfly. Her feet are dancing this minute in pink kid slippers with rosettes on them as big as poppies, and she wears a white muslinet gown, with a pink calico petticoat. Wasn't that the way she was dressed at the wedding, ...
— Little Grandmother • Sophie May

... Calcutta rather than lived there; for he was given to unexpected and extended absences from home, and was frequently reported as having been seen poking sedulously over this plain or through that jungle, with a butterfly net, a bottle of chloroform, and an air of abstraction. In view of all of which he was set down as an original and wholly irresponsible. The first of which he was and the second of which ...
— The Bronze Bell • Louis Joseph Vance

... were fixed on the mammoth butterfly upon whose iridescent wings Asia was putting the finishing touches, but her thoughts were ...
— Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch • Alice Caldwell Hegan

... resting between his small, rough paws; his eyes fixed upon his master, to hail whom he sprang not forward, as was his custom, with a right joyful and doggish salutation, but, mutely and quietly, wagged his dwarfish tail—so gently, that it would not have brushed off the down from a butterfly's wing. ...
— The Buccaneer - A Tale • Mrs. S. C. Hall


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