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English

image:C-Falter Polygonia C-album.jpg|thumb|A butterfly

Etymology

Old English buttorfleoge, corresponding to butter + fly, perhaps with reference to the colour of certain species including the Wikipedia:Brimstone (butterfly)|brimstone butterfly, Gonepteryx rhamni. Compare German Schmetterling.

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA: /ˈbʌtɝflaɪ/, (UK) IPA: /ˈbʌtəflaɪ/

An audio transcript can be found at en-ca-butterfly.ogg

Noun

  1. A flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from moths by their diurnal activity and generally brighter colouring.
  2. A swimming stroke in which the body is prone, the arms are moved in simultaneous circles, and the feet are kicked up and down.
  3. A use of surgical tape, cut into thin strips and placed across an open wound to hold it closed.
  4. : butterfly tape


Synonyms


Derived terms

Translations

  • Bosnian: {{t-|bs|delfin|m}}
  • Croatian: {{t-|hr|leptir|m}}, {{t-|hr|delfin|m}}
  • Dutch: vlinderslag
  • Finnish: perhosuinti, perhonen
  • French: {{t+|fr|papillon|m}}
  • German: {{t+|de|Schmetterling|m}}, {{t+|de|Delfin|m}}
  • Greek: {{t+|el|πεταλούδα|f|tr=petaloúda|sc=Grek}}
  • Maltese: qadfa butterfly

Verb

{{en-verb|butterfl|i|ed}}

  1. To cut almost entirely in half and spread the halves apart, in a shape suggesting the wings of a butterfly.
  2. : butterflied shrimp
  3. To cut strips of surgical tape or plasters into thin strips, and place across a gaping wound to close it.


See also


Category:Butterflies|* Category:Swimming

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Butterfly \But"ter*fly`\, n.; pl. Butterflies. [Perh. from the
color of a yellow species. AS. buter-fl[=e]ge,
buttor-fle['o]ge; cf. G. butterfliege, D. botervlieg. See
Butter, and Fly.] (Zool.)
A general name for the numerous species of diurnal
Lepidoptera.

Note: [See Illust. under Aphrodite.]
[1913 Webster]

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.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet butterfly
n 1: diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed
antennae and broad colorful wings
2: a swimming stroke in which the arms are thrown forward
together out of the water while the feet kick up and down
[syn: butterfly stroke]
v 1: flutter like a butterfly
2: cut and spread open, as in preparation for cooking;
"butterflied shrimp"
3: talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions; "The
guys always try to chat up the new secretaries"; "My
husband never flirts with other women" [syn: chat up, flirt,
dally, coquet, coquette, romance, philander, mash]
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