cabbage butterfly

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noun

any white or chiefly white butterfly of the family Pieridae, as Pieris rapae, the larvae of which feed on the leaves of cabbages and other related plants.

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Origin of cabbage butterfly

First recorded in 1810–20

Words nearby cabbage butterfly

cabaret, cabaret tax, cabbage, cabbage aphid, cabbage bug, cabbage butterfly, cabbagehead, cabbage lettuce, cabbage looper, cabbage moth, cabbage palm

How to use cabbage butterfly in a sentence

I’m thinking of flea beetles on arugula and eggplant, potato beetles on spuds, and cabbage butterfly worms and harlequin bugs on cabbages and related varieties.
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This video remedies that injustice, showcasing an owl doing a butterfly stroke in Lake Michigan.
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She became my sweetheart, temporarily; but a born butterfly, she soon fluttered away, leaving me disconsolate—for a time!
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What of the infinite goodness of God in teaching the grub of the ichneumon-fly to eat up the cabbage caterpillar alive?
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Beans and bacon, cabbage and brown hard dumplings, formed the bill of fare, which the men washed down with plenty of table beer.
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They never do anything but eat cabbage and cause gardeners to use bad language.
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And they both think of the cabbage soup steaming in the pot that hangs from the hook right under the great chimney.
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