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butterfly nets

butterfly nets is the plural of butterfly net.

Meaning of butterfly net

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

Questions about butterfly nets

What is butterfly nets the plural of?
Butterfly nets is the plural of butterfly net.

Words near butterfly nets in the dictionary

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

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