| 单词 | milkweed butterfly |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmilkweed butterfly milkweed butterfly n. see sense 6. milkweed butterfly 6. In full milkweed butterfly. The monarch, Danaus plexippus.So called because the larvae feed on milkweeds (usually Asclepias, sometimes Apocynum). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Rhopalocera (butterflies) > [noun] > family Nymphalidae > subfamily Danainae > danais plexippus (monarch) milkweed butterfly1880 monarch1889 1880 E. Burgess in Anniv. Mem. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 10 In the milkweed butterfly the colon is somewhat pyriform in the female. 1889 Insect Life 1 221 The following is a brief account of a migratory movement of enormous numbers of the common so-called Milk-weed Butterfly. 1906 R. South Butterflies Brit. Isles 107 The actual number of specimens of the Milkweed, or, as it is sometimes called, Monarch butterfly, seen or caught in England..does not much exceed thirty. 1944 R. Matheson Entomol. for Introd. Courses xiv. 316 We have four families of butterflies in North America: Papilionidae..Pieridae..Nymphalidae (the fritillaries, the cresent spots, the anglewings, the sovereigns, the emperors, the meadow browns or satyrs, the milkweeds, and others); Lycænidae. 1972 Country Life 6 Apr. 846/1 The milkweed or monarch butterfly is a denizen of North America. 1992 Trop. Lepidoptera 3 64 The new findings have major evolutionary and taxonomic implications for the milkweed butterflies. < as lemmas |
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