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bird-winged butterflies

bird-winged butterflies is the plural of bird-winged butterfly.

Meaning of bird-winged butterfly

Noun

bird-winged butterfly (plural bird-winged butterflies)

  1. (dated) Synonym of birdwing.
    • During my very first walk into the forest at Batchian, I had seen sitting on a leaf out of reach, an immense butterfly of a dark colour marked with white and yellow spots. I could not capture it as it flew away high up into the forest, but I at once saw that it was a female of a new species of...1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 50
    Synonyms:
    birdwing

Questions about bird-winged butterflies

What is bird-winged butterflies the plural of?
Bird-winged butterflies is the plural of bird-winged butterfly.

Words near bird-winged butterflies in the dictionary

  1. bird-walks
  2. bird-watch
  3. bird-watched
  4. bird-watches
  5. bird-watching
  6. bird-winged butterflies
  7. bird-winged butterfly
  8. bird-witted
  9. Birda
  10. birdaholic
  11. birdaholics

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