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butterfly net

butterfly net noun: a small net with attached handle used to collect butterflies and other insect species.

Noun

butterfly net (plural butterfly nets)

  1. A small net with attached handle used to collect butterflies and other insect species.
    • He spends his days flitting through the woods with his shot-gun and his butterfly-net, and his evenings in mounting the many specimens he has acquired.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, “‘To-Morrow we Disappear into the Unknown’”, in The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 98

Forms of butterfly net

pluralbutterfly nets

Questions about butterfly net

What does butterfly net mean?
Butterfly net means a small net with attached handle used to collect butterflies and other insect species.
What part of speech is butterfly net?
Butterfly net is a noun.
What is the plural of butterfly net?
The plural of butterfly net is butterfly nets.

Words near butterfly net in the dictionary

  1. butterfly milkweeds
  2. butterfly mine
  3. butterfly mines
  4. butterfly needle
  5. butterfly needles
  6. butterfly net
  7. butterfly nets
  8. butterfly nut
  9. butterfly nuts
  10. butterfly pea
  11. butterfly peas

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