AMERICAN COPPER

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Meaning:

Common copper butterfly of central and eastern North America

Synonyms:

American copper; Lycaena hypophlaeas

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("American copper" is a kind of...):

copper (any of various small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae having coppery wings)

Holonyms ("American copper" is a member of...):

genus Lycaena; Lycaena (type genus of the Lycaenidae; small slender butterflies with upper surface of wings usually metallic blue or green or copper)

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