Stuck on a problem? Get great tutoring at an affordable price with Chegg.
Click here
to join and get your 1st 30 minutes Free!
Butterfly
From Biology-Online Dictionary
Origin: Perh. From the colour of a yellow species. As. Buter-flege, buttor-fleoge; cf. G. Butterfliege, D. Botervlieg. See butter, and fly.
(Science: zoology) a general name for the numerous species of diurnal lepidoptera.
See: Illust. Under Aphrodite] asclepias butterfly. See asclepias. Butterfly fish, a kind of double clack valve, consisting of two semicircular clappers or wings hinged to a cross rib in the pump bucket. When open it somewhat resembles a butterfly in shape.
