| 单词 | green-veined white butterfly |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgreen-veined white butterfly green-veined white n. a white Holarctic pierid butterfly, Pieris napi, with black scales on the pale yellow underside of the hindwings that give the dark veins a greenish appearance; also more fully green-veined white butterfly.North American forms are sometimes treated as separate species. ΚΠ ?1787 W. F. Mavor New Dict. Nat. Hist. I. at Butterfly Plate the Third. Fig. 1. Green-veined White, the Napi, Danai, of Linnæus. 1895 Oracle Encycl. I. 565/2 The green-veined white butterfly. 1940 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 9 244 The three common British Pierines are the small white (P. rapae (L.)), the large white (P. brassicae (L.)) and the green-veined white (P. napi (L.)). 1995 Stornoway Gaz. 13 July 8/3 The first butterfly to appear on Lewis each year is the Green-veined White (Pieris napi ) in mid or late May. < as lemmas |
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