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butterflies

English

Noun

butterflies

  1. plural of butterfly

Noun

butterflies pl (plural only)

  1. (by ellipsis) butterflies in one's stomach

Derived terms

  • butterflies in one's stomach

Verb

butterflies

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of butterfly

Anagrams

  • filter tubes, flutterbies

butterflies From the web:

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  • what butterflies are poisonous
  • what butterflies migrate
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  • what butterflies are migrating right now
  • what butterflies symbolize
  • what butterflies look like monarchs
  • what butterflies do

swallowtail

English

Etymology

swallow +? tail

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?sw?l.???te?l/

Noun

swallowtail (plural swallowtails)

  1. The forked tail of a swallow.
  2. Anything, such as a burgee, of a similar forked shape.
  3. A type of tailcoat with two long tapering tails.Wp
    • It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
  4. Any of various butterflies of the family Papilionidae, many of which have a long extension to each hindwing.

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