noun
arthropod family including cabbage butterflies; sulphur butterflies
• Syn: ↑family Pieridae
• Hypernyms: ↑arthropod family
• Member Holonyms: ↑Lepidoptera, ↑order Lepidoptera
• Member Meronyms:
↑pierid, ↑pierid butterfly, ↑cabbage butterfly, ↑Pieris, ↑genus Pieris, ↑sulphur butterfly, ↑sulfur butterfly
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\\pīˈerəˌdē\ noun pluralUsage: capitalized
: a very large and almost cosmopolitan family of butterflies formerly regarded as a subfamily of Papilionidae that comprises the cabbage butterflies, sulphur butterflies, and others having three pairs of well-developed legs in both sexes and being usually of medium size and white or yellow color with dark markings especially on the edges of the wings
Useful english dictionary. 2012.