different between jellyfish vs butterfly

English

Etymology

From jelly +? fish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??li?f??/

Noun

jellyfish (countable and uncountable, plural jellyfish or jellyfishes)

1. An almost transparent aquatic animal; any one of the acalephs, especially one of the larger species, having a jellylike appearance.
   1. A cnidarian, a member of the phylum Cnidaria.
      1. A scyphozoan, a member of the class Scyphozoa (the true jellies).
   2. A ctenophore, a member of the phylum Ctenophora (the comb jellies).

Synonyms

• jelly

Hypernyms

• Medusozoa

Derived terms

• alarm jellyfish (Atolla wyvillei)
• Atolla jellyfish (Atolla wyvillei)
• barrel jellyfish (Rhizostoma pulmo)
• blubber jellyfish (Catostylus mosaicus)
• blue blubber jellyfish (Catostylus mosaicus)
• blue bottle jellyfish (Physalia physalis)
• box jellyfish (class Cubozoa)
• cabbagehead jellyfish (Stomolophus meleagris)
• cannonball jellyfish (Stomolophus meleagris)
• common jellyfish (Aurelia aurita)
• compound jellyfish (order Siphonophora)
• crown jellyfish (order Coronatae)
• flame jellyfish (Rhopilema esculentum)
• fried-egg jellyfish (Cotylorhiza tuberculata, Phacellophora camtschatica)
• giant jellyfish (Cyanea spp.)
• helmet jellyfish (Periphylla periphylla)
• immortal jellyfish (Turritopsis dohrnii)
• Irukandji jellyfish (Carukia barnesi, Malo spp.)
• jellyfish itch (caused by Linuche unguiculata)
• jellyfish baby
• jellyfish galaxy
• jellyfish tree
• jellyfishy
• lion's mane jellyfish (Cyanea spp.)
• moon jellyfish (Aurelia aurita)
• mushroom jellyfish (Rhopilema verrilli)
• Nomura's jellyfish (Nemopilema nomurai)
• purple-striped jellyfish (Pelagia spp.)
• stalked jellyfish (class Staurozoa)
• thimble jellyfish (Linuche unguiculata)

Translations

See also

• medusa

Further reading

• jellyfish on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

From Middle English buterflie, butturflye, boterflye, from Old English butorfl?oge, buttorfl?oge, buterfl?oge (from butere (“butter”)), equivalent to butter +? fly. Cognate with Dutch botervlieg, German Butterfliege (“butterfly”). The name may have originally been applied to butterflies of a yellowish color, and/or reflected a belief that butterflies ate milk and butter (compare German Molkendieb (“butterfly”, literally “whey thief”) and Low German Botterlicker (“butterfly”, literally “butter-licker”)), or that they excreted a butter-like substance (compare Dutch boterschijte (“butterfly”, literally “butter-shitter”)). Compare also German Schmetterling from Schmetten (“cream”), German Low German Bottervögel (“butterfly”, literally “butter-fowl”). More at butter, fly.

An alternate theory suggests that the first element may have originally been butor- (“beater”), a mutation of b?atan (“to beat”).

Superseded non-native Middle English papilion (“butterfly”) borrowed from Old French papillon (“butterfly”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?t?(?)fla?/
  • (US, Canada) IPA^(key): [?b???fla?]
  • (UK) IPA^(key): [?b?t?fla?]
• Rhymes: -a?

Noun

butterfly (plural butterflies)

2. A flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from moths by their diurnal activity and generally brighter colouring. [from 11th c.]
3. A use of surgical tape, cut into thin strips and placed across an open wound to hold it closed.

5. (swimming) The butterfly stroke. [from 20th c.]
6. (in the plural) A sensation of excited anxiety felt in the stomach.

   I get terrible butterflies before an exam.

7. (now rare) Someone seen as being unserious and (originally) dressed gaudily; someone flighty and unreliable. [from 17th c.]
   • 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 15:

     He was affable; therefore he was frivolous. The women liked him; therefore he was a butterfly.

Synonyms

• lep

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

butterfly (third-person singular simple present butterflies, present participle butterflying, simple past and past participle butterflied)

1. (transitive) To cut (food) almost entirely in half and spread the halves apart, in a shape suggesting the wings of a butterfly.

   butterflied shrimp

   Butterfly the chicken before you grill it.

2. (transitive) To cut strips of surgical tape or plasters into thin strips, and place across (a gaping wound) to close it.

See also

• caterpillar
• flutterby
• moth
• Appendix: Animals
• Appendix:English collective nouns

References

Anagrams

• flutterby

Danish

Noun

butterfly c (singular definite butterflyen, plural indefinite butterfly)

1. bowtie

Inflection