Butterfly

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of various insects of the order Lepidoptera, characteristically having slender bodies, knobbed antennae, and four broad, usually colorful wings.
  • n. A person interested principally in frivolous pleasure: a social butterfly.
  • n. Sports A swimming stroke in which a swimmer lying face down draws both arms upward out of the water, thrusts them forward, and draws them back under the water in an hourglass design while performing a dolphin kick.
  • n. Sports A race or a leg of a race in which this stroke is swum.
  • n. A feeling of unease or mild nausea caused especially by fearful anticipation.
  • v. To cut and spread open and flat, as shrimp.
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  • n. A use of surgical tape, cut into thin strips and placed across an open wound to hold it closed.
  • v. To cut almost entirely in half and spread the halves apart, in a shape suggesting the wings of a butterfly.
  • v. To cut strips of surgical tape or plasters into thin strips, and place across a gaping wound to close it.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A general name for the numerous species of diurnal Lepidoptera.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The common English name of any diurnal lepidopterous insect; especially, one of the rhopalocerous Lepidoptera, corresponding to the old Linnean genus Papilio, called distinctively the butterflies. See Diurna, Rhopalocera, Lepidoptera, and Papilio.
  • n. Figuratively, a person whose attention is given up to a variety of trifles of any kind; one incapable of steady application; a showily dressed, vain, and giddy person.
  • n. A kind of flat made-up neck-tie.
  • n. An herb otherwise called ragwort. Kersey, 1708.
  • n. A local name for a mussel, Plagiola securis, found in the Mississippi river: so called from the shape of the valves. The shell is used in the pearl-button industry.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings
  • v. talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions
  • n. a swimming stroke in which the arms are thrown forward together out of the water while the feet kick up and down
  • v. flutter like a butterfly
  • v. cut and spread open, as in preparation for cooking
    • Verb Form
    butterflied    butterflies    butterflying   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    swimming stroke    fleet    dart    flit    flutter   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    lep   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    moth    insect    bird    spider    beetle   
     
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