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butterflyer

butterflyer is the alternative form of butterflier.

Meaning of butterflier

Noun

butterflier (plural butterfliers)

  1. One who collects or studies butterflies.
    • Jeffrey Glassberg is a butterflier, which means that he not only watches butterflies through binoculars, he also keeps records of how many he sees, takes photographs […]1998, Joanne Elizabeth Lauck, The Voice of the Infinite in the Small
  2. Someone who competes in butterfly swimming.

Forms of butterflyer

pluralbutterflyers

Questions about butterflyer

What is butterflyer the alternative form of?
Butterflyer is the alternative form of butterflier.

Words near butterflyer in the dictionary

  1. butterfly valves
  2. butterfly watching
  3. butterfly weed
  4. butterfly-knotted
  5. butterflybush
  6. butterflyer
  7. butterflyers
  8. butterflyfish
  9. butterflyfishes
  10. butterflying
  11. butterflylike

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Adapted from Wiktionary: butterflyer (page history and authors); butterflier (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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