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The answer BUTTERFLIES has 23 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of butterflies in various dictionaries:
noun - diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings
noun - a swimming stroke in which the arms are thrown forward together out of the water while the feet kick up and down
verb - flutter like a butterfly
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The lantana is valued as a plant for its ability to attract hummingbirds and these flutterers |
Examples include the two-tailed pasha & the zebra swallowtail |
Instead of throwing rice, some guests release these insects--painted ladies, for example |
Tiger swallowtail,Queen Alexandra's birdwing,great purple hairstreak |
The Zuni believe that when the kachina Paiyatemu played the flute, these insects fluttered into existence |
A queasy feeling may be called these insects in the stomach |
Prints of these insects were big in '99, whether swallowtails or monarchs we don't know |
The comma & the question mark are 2 angelwing species of these fluttering insects |
Added to the list in 1997 were the Quino Checkerspot & Laguna Mountains Skipper, types of these |
The Xerces Blue of this insect, native to sand dunes in San Francisco's Sunset District, became extinct in the 1940s |
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Plural form of butterfly. |
a nectar-feeding insect with two pairs of large, typically brightly coloured wings that are covered with microscopic scales. Butterflies are distinguished from moths by having clubbed or dilated antennae, holding their wings erect when at rest, and being active by day. |
A nectar-feeding insect with two pairs of large, typically brightly coloured wings that are covered with microscopic scales. Butterflies are distinguished from moths by having clubbed or dilated antennae, holding their wings erect when at rest, and being active by day. |
A stroke in swimming in which both arms are raised out of the water and lifted forwards together. |
Split (a piece of meat or fish) almost in two and spread it out flat. |
Butterflies might refer to |
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Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprises the large superfamily Papilionoidea, which contains at least one former group, the skippers (formerly the superfamily "Hesperioidea") and the most recent analyses suggest it also contains the moth-butterflies (formerly the superfamily "Hedyloidea"). Butterfly fossils date to the Paleocene, which was about 56 million years ago. * Butterflies have the typical four-stage insect life cycle. Winged adults lay eggs on the food plant on which their larvae, known as caterpillars, will feed. The caterpillars grow, sometimes very rapidly, and when fully developed, pupate in a chrysalis. When metamorphosis is complete, the pupal skin splits, the adult insect climbs out, and after its wings have expanded and dried, it flies off. Some butterflies, especially in the |