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large white

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large white
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1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) Also called cabbage white a large white butterfly, Pieris brassicae, with scanty black markings, the larvae of which feed on brassica leaves
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Breeds) (often capitals) a white large-bodied breed of pig commonly kept for pork, bacon, and for fattening
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Noun1.large white - Old World form of cabbage butterfly
cabbage butterfly - white butterfly whose larvae (cabbageworms) feed on cabbage
genus Pieris, Pieris - type genus of the Pieridae


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There were two large white eggs, and Peter lifted them up and reflected.
If they had been at all visibly blighted or battered, she would doubtless have grown, on tracing it back, haggard enough to match them; as matters stood, however, I could feel her, when she surveyed them, with her large white arms folded and the habit of serenity in all her look, thank the Lord's mercy that if they were ruined the pieces would still serve.
said a man with a large white bow at his button-hole, opening the door, and confronting him with a very stoical aspect.
 
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