MILKWEED BUTTERFLY

Meaning of MILKWEED BUTTERFLY in English

Function: noun

Date: 1880

: any of a family (Danaidae) or nymphalid subfamily (Danaine) of large butterflies feeding on plants of the milkweed family as larvae especially : MONARCH BUTTERFLY

Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary. Merriam Webster - Энциклопедический словарь английского языка. 2012

MILKWEED BUTTERFLY — noun Date: 1880 any of a family (Danaidae) or nymphalid subfamily (Danaine) of large butterflies feeding on plants of the …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
MILKWEED BUTTERFLY — noun : monarch 3
Webster's New International English Dictionary
MILKWEED BUTTERFLY — See monarch butterfly . [ 1875-80, Amer. ]
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
MILKWEED BUTTERFLY — Date: 1880 : any of a family (Danaidae) or nymphalid subfamily (Danaine) of large butterflies feeding on plants of the …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
MILKWEED BUTTERFLY — [milkweed butterfly] n (1880): any of a family (Danaidae) or nymphalid subfamily (Danaine) of large butterflies feeding on plants of …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
MILKWEED BUTTERFLY — any of a group of butterflies considered by some authorities as the family Danaidae (order Lepidoptera) and by others as …
Britannica English vocabulary
MILKWEED BUTTERFLY — данаида (Danais); pl данаиды (Danaidae)
Новый Англо-Русский словарь по биологии
MILKWEED BUTTERFLY — данаида ( Danais ) ; pl данаиды ( Danaidae )
Новый Англо-Русский биологический словарь
MILKWEED — noun Date: circa 1592 any of various plants that secrete latex
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
BUTTERFLY — I Any of more than 17,000 lepidopteran species found worldwide. Unlike moth s, butterflies are active during the day and …
Английский словарь Британика
BUTTERFLY — I. ˈbəd.ə(r)ˌflī, -ətə- noun Etymology: Middle English butterflie, from Old English buterflēoge, from butere butter + flēoge fly, perhaps from …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
MILKWEED — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun : any of several plants that secrete latex: as a. : a plant of the family Asclepiadaceae ; …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
MILKWEED — (n.) Any plant of the genera Asclepias and Acerates, abounding in a milky juice, and having its seed attached to …
Английский словарь Webster
MILKWEED — ( n. ) Any plant of the genera Asclepias and Acerates, abounding in a milky juice, and having its seed …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
MILKWEED — /milk"weed'/ , n. 1. any of several plants that secrete a milky juice or latex, esp. those of the genus …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
BUTTERFLY — — butterflylike , adj. , adv. /but"euhr fluy'/ , n. , pl. butterflies , v. , butterflied, butterflying , adj. …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
MILKWEED — n. plant with milky juice and flowers (Botany)
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
BUTTERFLY — n. any of a number of winged insects of the order Lepidoptera having long slender bodies and four colorful wings; …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
BUTTERFLY — I. -ˌflī noun Usage: often attributive Date: before 12th century 1. : any of numerous slender-bodied diurnal lepidopteran insects including …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
MILKWEED — noun Date: circa 1592 : any of various plants that secrete latex ; especially : any of a genus ( …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
MILKWEED — noun any plant of the genera asclepias and acerates, abounding in a milky juice, and having its seed attached to …
Webster English vocab
MILKWEED — ■ noun 1》 a herbaceous American plant with milky sap. [Genus Asclepias .] 2》 (also ~ butterfly ) another term …
Concise Oxford English vocab
MILKWEED — [milk.weed] n (ca. 1598): any of various plants that secrete latex; esp: any of a genus (Asclepias of the family …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
BUTTERFLY — [but.ter.fly] n, often attrib (bef. 12c) 1: any of numerous slender-bodied diurnal insects (order Lepidoptera) with broad often brightly colored …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
MILKWEED — any of several species of flowering plants belonging to the family Asclepiadaceae (q.v.).
Britannica English vocabulary
BUTTERFLY — Palaechrysophanus hippothoe, an iridescent butterfly any of several thousand species of insects belonging to about six families (or more, in …
Britannica English vocabulary
MILKWEED — milkweed BrE AmE ˈmɪlk wiːd ▷ milkweed|s z
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
BUTTERFLY — butter|fly BrE AmE ˈbʌt ə |flaɪ AmE \ ˈbʌt̬ ə r- ▷ butter|flies flaɪz ▶ ˈ butterfly bush BrE AmE …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
BUTTERFLY — / ˈbʌtəflaɪ; NAmE -tərf-/ noun ( pl. -ies ) 1. [ C ] a flying insect with a long thin …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
MILKWEED — milk ‧ weed /ˈmɪlkwiːd/ BrE AmE noun [uncountable] a common North American plant that produces a bitter white substance when …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
BUTTERFLY — but ‧ ter ‧ fly /ˈbʌtəflaɪ $ -ər-/ BrE AmE noun ( plural butterflies ) [countable] [ Language: Old English …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
MILKWEED — n. any of various wild plants with milky juice.
Английский основной разговорный словарь
BUTTERFLY — n. (pl. -flies) 1 any diurnal insect of the order Lepidoptera, with knobbed antennae, a long thin body, and four …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
MILKWEED — n. any of various wild plants with milky juice.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
BUTTERFLY — n. (pl. -flies) 1 any diurnal insect of the order Lepidoptera, with knobbed antennae, a long thin body, and four …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
MILKWEED — n. any of various wild plants with milky juice.
Oxford English vocab
BUTTERFLY — n. (pl. -flies) 1. any diurnal insect of the order Lepidoptera, with knobbed antennae, a long thin body, and four …
Oxford English vocab
BUTTERFLY — ( butterflies) 1. A butterfly is an insect with large colourful wings and a thin body. N-COUNT 2. Butterfly is …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
BUTTERFLY — (butterflies) 1. A ~ is an insect with large colourful wings and a thin body. N-COUNT 2. Butterfly is a …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
MILKWEED — noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ As protection against herbivores such as caterpillars, the milkweed produces chemical deterrents on its leaves. …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
BUTTERFLY — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE white ▪ A pure white butterfly tossed about in the light on the edge …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
BUTTERFLY — n. butterfly bush admiral butterfly blue butterfly butterfly weed cabbage butterfly copper butterfly monarch butterfly sulphur butterfly sulfur butterfly swallowtail …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
BUTTERFLY — n. Any of more than 17,000 lepidopteran species found worldwide. Unlike moth s, butterflies are active during the day and …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
MILKWEED — n. Silkweed, wild cotton ( Asclepias syriaca ).
Dictionary of English Synonyms
BUTTERFLY — noun 1 insect VERB + BUTTERFLY ▪ chase ▪ collect ▪ attract ▪ Sweetly scented flowers will attract butterflies to …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
BUTTERFLY — n. 25B6; noun lepidopteran. See list. lepidopterous, papilionaceous. Butterflies See also moth . large blue Adonis blue map butterfly alpine …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
MILKWEED — сущ. название многих растений, выделяющих млечный сок, напр., молочай; насекомые, питающиеся (ботаника) молочай и др. растения, выделяющие млечный сок milkweed …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
BUTTERFLY
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
MILKWEED — n бот. молочай ( и др. растения, выделяющие млечный сок )
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
BUTTERFLY
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
MILKWEED — ваточник
Англо-Русский научно-технический словарь
MILKWEED — название растений, выделяющих млечный сок, напр., молочай
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
BUTTERFLY — butterfly сущ.1) бабочка to collect butterflies — собирать бабочек A butterfly flits from flower to flower. — Бабочка порхает с …
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
MILKWEED — (n) молочай
English-Russian Lingvistica'98 dictionary
MILKWEED — n бот. молочай ( и др. растения, выделяющие млечный сок )
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
MILKWEED — n бот. молочай ( и др. растения, выделяющие млечный сок )
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
BUTTERFLY
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
MILKWEED — n. молочай [бот.], название многих растений
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
MILKWEED — n. молочай [бот.], название многих растений
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
MILKWEED — сущ. название многих растений, выделяющих млечный сок, напр., молочай; насекомые, питающиеся
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
BUTTERFLY — сущ. 1) бабочка to collect butterflies — собирать бабочек A butterfly flits from flower to flower. — Бабочка порхает с …
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
BUTTERFLY — сущ. 1) бабочка to collect butterflies — собирать бабочек A butterfly flits from flower to flower. — Бабочка порхает с цветка на цветок 2) …
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
MILKWEED — бот. 1) ваточник (Asclepias) 2) латук метельчатый (Lactuca spicata); латук ядовитый (Lactuca virosa) 3) молочай пятнистый (Euphorbia maculata); молочай венчиковидный (Euphorbia corollata) • - bedstraw …
Новый Англо-Русский словарь по биологии
BUTTERFLY
Новый Англо-Русский словарь по биологии

Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary

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