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cabbage butterfly

noun

white butterfly whose larvae (cabbageworms) feed on cabbage

• Hyponyms: ↑small white, ↑Pieris rapae, ↑large white, ↑Pieris brassicae, ↑southern cabbage butterfly, ↑Pieris protodice

• Member Holonyms: ↑Pieridae, ↑family Pieridae

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noun

: any of several largely white butterflies (family Pieridae) the green larvae of which are cabbageworms: as

a. : a small cosmopolitan form (Pieris rapae) — called also small white

b. : a larger Old World form (P. brassicae) — called also large white

c. : a common No. American form (P. protodice) — called also southern cabbage butterfly

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any white or chiefly white butterfly of the family Pieridae, as Pieris rapae, the larvae of which feed on the leaves of cabbages and other related plants.

[1810-20]

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cabbage butterfly,

a kind of white butterfly whose larvae often damage cabbages.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.