Monarch Butterfly - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: monarch butterflymonarch butterfly
A very large red and black butterfly Danais Plexippus having striking orange brown wings with black veins in a reticulated pattern called also milkweed butterfly and monarch Its larvae feed on the leaves of the milkweed...
Danaidae
a small natural family of usually tropical butterflies including the monarch butterflies...
Danaus
the type genus of the Danaidae including the monarch butterfly Danaus plexippus...
Milkweed
Any plant of the genera Asclepias and Acerates abounding in a milky juice and having its seed attached to a long silky down silkweed The name is also applied to several other plants with a milky juice as to several kinds of spurge Its leaves are a favorite food source for the larvae of the monarch butterfly...
Monarchal
Pertaining to a monarch suiting a monarch sovereign regal imperial...
Monarchic
Of or pertaining to a monarch or to monarchy...
Monarchize
To play the sovereign to act the monarch...
Monarchizer
One who monarchizes also a monarchist...
cabbage butterfly
a white butterfly Pieris rapaelig of both Europe and America and the allied Pieris oleracea a native American species which in the larval state devours the leaves of the cabbage and the turnip See also Cabbage worm below...
Nymphales
Same as Nymphalidae an extensive family of butterflies including the nymphs the satyrs the monarchs the heliconias and others called also brush footed butterflies...
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