noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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white
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A pure white butterfly tossed about in the light on the edge of the lake.
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Place a sheet of fine netting a few inches above cabbages and brassicas to keep cabbage white butterflies away.
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The white butterflies lay their eggs on plants of the cabbage family and also on the garden nasturtium in May to August.
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fish
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The young of the emperor butterfly fish that live on coral reefs seem to use this system too.
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Would it cope with more sensitive species such as butterfly fish and anemones?
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If this is your first marine tank, I would not consider sensitive butterfly fish , or coral invertebrates.
monarch
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The wings of the monarch butterfly , for example, contain powerful heart-stopping poisons called cardiac glycosides.
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The caterpillars of the monarch butterfly , surprisingly, are able to feed on milkweed without taking any of these precautions.
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Both the caterpillar and adult of the monarch butterfly are distasteful to their enemies.
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For example, the pollen of modified crops had already been shown to be poisonous to monarch butterfly larvae.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Gwen's a real social butterfly .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A butterfly wing has a dynamically changing structure that allows myriad responses to its own induced wing vortices.
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At about the seventeenth day the first butterflies will probably start to emerge.
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For the patterned butterflies I used a small part of the leaf design.
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He collected rocks and butterflies and devoured accounts of recent scientific expeditions.
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I feel a kind of reverence in late summer when I visit that abandoned butterfly garden.
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I shut my eyes and tried to see the butterfly .
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The snails had vanished, but now some one seemingly had traced a picture of a butterfly in the dirt.
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These people can take many blows, but I, I am fragile as a butterfly .