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CABBAGE BUTTERFLY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
White butterfly whose larvae (cabbageworms) feed on cabbage
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("cabbage butterfly" is a kind of...):
pierid; pierid butterfly (any of numerous pale-colored butterflies having three pairs of well-developed legs)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cabbage butterfly"):
Pieris rapae; small white (small widely distributed form)
large white; Pieris brassicae (Old World form of cabbage butterfly)
Pieris protodice; southern cabbage butterfly (common North American form of cabbage butterfly)
Holonyms ("cabbage butterfly" is a member of...):
family Pieridae; Pieridae (arthropod family including cabbage butterflies; sulphur butterflies)