| Noun | 1. | family Pieridae - arthropod family including cabbage butterflies; sulphur butterflies arthropod family - any of the arthropods Lepidoptera, order Lepidoptera - moths and butterflies pierid, pierid butterfly - any of numerous pale-colored butterflies having three pairs of well-developed legs cabbage butterfly - white butterfly whose larvae (cabbageworms) feed on cabbage genus Pieris, Pieris - type genus of the Pieridae sulfur butterfly, sulphur butterfly - any of numerous yellow or orange butterflies |