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bird-winged butterfly

bird-winged butterfly noun: synonym of birdwing.

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

Synonyms of bird-winged butterfly

Forms of bird-winged butterfly

pluralbird-winged butterflies

Questions about bird-winged butterfly

What does bird-winged butterfly mean?
Bird-winged butterfly means synonym of birdwing.
What part of speech is bird-winged butterfly?
Bird-winged butterfly is a noun.
What is the plural of bird-winged butterfly?
The plural of bird-winged butterfly is bird-winged butterflies.

Words near bird-winged butterfly in the dictionary

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

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