View example sentences, synonyms and word forms for Butterfly.
Butterfly
Butterfly meaning
A flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from moths by their diurnal activity and generally brighter colouring. | A use of surgical tape, cut into thin strips and placed across an open wound to hold it closed. | The butterfly stroke.
Synonyms of Butterfly
Example sentences (20)
This year, the Big Butterfly Count will run from July 20 to August 12, in which time the Butterfly Conservation will call on the public to spot and record 17 species of butterfly.
Butterfly kick main Wushu Butterfly kick (animated video) The butterfly kick is done by doing a large circular motion with both feet in succession, making the combatant airborne.
A monarch butterfly lands on a butterfly bush bloom in the garden of the Montanez Adobe in the Los Rios Street Historic District in San Juan Capistrano, on Wednesday, October 12, 2022.
A tagged monarch butterfly perches on a cluster of flowers at Charlotte Rhoades Park and Butterfly Garden on Aug. 23, in Southwest Harbor.
Each butterfly will represent a loved one and Myton is inviting people to make a dedication and donation in return for their own butterfly that can be taken home.
Holly, who has also been praised for her 'amazing' butterfly-themed painting and ceramics, volunteers with the Highland Branch of national charity Butterfly Conservation.
Join Little Caterpillar Butterfly Art and Conservation to learn how to preserve a butterfly (and other winged insects) for display.
Prior to that, Amaro II also bagged three gilts in the 50m butterfly, 100m butterfly, and the 100m freestyle, making him one of the winningest swimmer in the meet.
Yellow might be accompanied by an illustration of a lemon, and a butterfly by a butterfly illustration.
Jane Kendrick, marketing manager at Stratford Butterfly Farm said “As a small and independent business, the Butterfly Farm would like to thank everyone for their ongoing support since the Farm reopened in July and wish everyone good health.
Georgia placed third in the U9 butterfly and Julia came first in the U7 butterfly, second in U7 backstroke, second in U7 freestyle and second in U7 kickerboard events.
On waking up, he started to wonder: Was he a man who dreamt that he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming that he was a man?
The predicament of the young prince, Segismundo, calls to mind the Chinese sage's story of the man who dreams he is a butterfly and wakes to wonder whether he is actually a butterfly dreaming he is a man.
While at the park, Grimaldi shared an overview of butterfly pollination and migration; the role of bees in pollination; the difference between daytime butterfly and nighttime moth nectar-seeking pollinators; and pollinator-friendly plant landscaping.
Butterfly's relatives say that he is like a king, so rich and so handsome, and then, at a sign from Butterfly, all her friends and relatives bow to Pinkerton and walk out to the garden.
Butterfly's uncle, the Bonze, has discovered that Butterfly has renounced her ancestral religion, and he has arrived to deliver his curse.
From outside, Pinkerton cries, "Butterfly!" and rushes in – but it is too late: Butterfly is dead.
Had the butterfly not flapped its wings, the trajectory of the system might have been vastly different—but it's also equally possible that the set of conditions without the butterfly flapping its wings is the set that leads to a tornado.
Pinkerton and Sharpless have arrived, but Pinkerton tells Suzuki not to wake Butterfly and asks how Butterfly knew that he had arrived.
Reiman Gardens has since grown to become a convert site consisting of a dozen distinct garden areas, an indoor conservatory and an indoor butterfly "wing", butterfly emergence cases, a gift shop, and several supporting greenhouses.