| 单词 | cabbage white |
| 释义 | > as lemmascabbage white cabbage white n. [compare German Kohlweißling (1774 or earlier)] either of two mainly white pierid Eurasian butterflies, the small white ( Pieris rapae) and the large white ( P. brassicae), whose larvae feed on the leaves of cabbages and related plants; cf. cabbage butterfly n. ΚΠ 1830 Mag. Nat. Hist. 3 247 This year they were even more numerous than even the common Cabbage White. 1891 Entomologist's Rec. 1 312 He believed the Hessian Fly was no more a recent introduction than the Cabbage White Butterflies. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xiii. 296 Caterpillars of the cabbage whites..are often disastrously abundant. 1991 G. MacBeth Another Love Story i. 12 I saw a cabbage white today, and then two other butterflies, tortoiseshells I think, on the roughcast wall above the terrace. 2004 BBC Gardeners' World Dec. 80/2 And whenever I see cabbage white caterpillars I pick them off. < as lemmas |
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