cabbage butterfly

cabbage butterfly

n.

See cabbage white.

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cab′bage but`terfly

n.

any white or chiefly white butterfly of the family Pieridae, as Pieris rapae, the larvae of which feed on the leaves of cabbages and related plants.

[1810–20]

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Noun

1.

cabbage butterfly - white butterfly whose larvae (cabbageworms) feed on cabbage family Pieridae, Pieridae - arthropod family including cabbage butterflies; sulphur butterflies pierid, pierid butterfly - any of numerous pale-colored butterflies having three pairs of well-developed legs small white, Pieris rapae - 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

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