| 单词 | nettle butterfly |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnettle butterfly nettle butterfly n. now rare the small tortoiseshell, Aglais urticae, whose larvae feed on nettles. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Rhopalocera (butterflies) > [noun] > family Nymphalidae > subfamily Ithomiinae > genus Vanessa > vanessa urticae (nettle-butterfly) nettle butterfly1803 1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. III. 300 The Nettle Tortoise-shell Butterfly. 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. xxix. 101 The eggs of..the nettle butterfly..when laid in summer are hatched in a few days. 1902 R. W. Chambers Maids of Paradise xiii. 222 The scarlet-banded nettle-butterflies flitted and hovered. 1919 Encycl. Americana XX. 97/1 Nettle-butterfly, a European butterfly (Vanessa urticæ), which feeds and lays its eggs on nettles. 1937 National Nature News 27 Sept. 5/1 Take the nettle butterfly and the nettle plant. The two are well-known throughout most of the northern hemisphere. < as lemmas |
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