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papilios

papilios is the plural of papilio.

Meaning of papilio

Noun

papilio (plural papilios or papiliones)

  1. Any butterfly of the genus Papilio.
    • At one place I would find a little crowd of the rare butterfly Tachyris zarinda, which would rise up at my approach, and display their vivid orange and cinnabar-red wings, while among them would flutter a few of the fine blue-banded Papilios.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 365

Questions about papilios

What is papilios the plural of?
Papilios is the plural of papilio.

Words near papilios in the dictionary

  1. papilionate
  2. papilionid
  3. papilionids
  4. papilionoid
  5. papilionoids
  6. papilios
  7. papilla
  8. papillae
  9. papillae corona glandis
  10. papillae coronae glandis
  11. papillar

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Adapted from Wiktionary: papilios (page history and authors); papilio (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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