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spring beauties

spring beauties is the plural of spring beauty.

Meaning of spring beauty

Noun

spring beauty (plural spring beauties)

  1. Any of various species of flowering plant of the genus Claytonia, primarily native to the Americas and northeastern Asia.
    • On the lane below, more orangetips nectared on spring beauties and violets.2010, Robert Michael Pyle, Mariposa Road: The First Butterfly Big Year, page 123
  2. (obsolete) A small American butterfly, the early hairstreak (Erora laeta), which appears in spring. The hind wings of the male are brown, bordered with deep blue; those of the female are mostly blue.

Questions about spring beauties

What is spring beauties the plural of?
Spring beauties is the plural of spring beauty.

Words near spring beauties in the dictionary

  1. spring bars
  2. Spring Bay
  3. Spring Beach
  4. spring beam
  5. spring beams
  6. spring beauties
  7. spring beauty
  8. spring bed
  9. spring beds
  10. spring beetle
  11. spring beetles

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