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butterfly

[buht-er-flahy] / ˈbʌt ərˌflaɪ /
NOUN
caterpillar
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Cerutti has renaturalised about a third of her 110 hectare property, including 25 hectares that have been turned into wetlands, which are now home to rare species such as the Large Copper butterfly.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

The schoolgirl was named a Games MVP on Sunday to cap an extraordinary showing that saw her scorch to gold in the 200m butterfly and do the 200m-400m individual medley double.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

Nearly 5,000 people took part in the Butterfly Conservation's 2026 big butterfly count in Devon, recording 77,151 insects during the three-week count.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

"The once-common small tortoiseshell butterfly is now rarely seen for example, and there are far fewer records of the two-spot ladybird," Winnall explained.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

“Well, I’ll be. I like that. Like a butterfly, huh? Well, I’ll be.”

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

“You know: butterflies, moths, caterpillars, birds. That would do a lot to make this landscape come alive.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

To examine how different pollinators interact, the team divided flower visitors into five groups: honey bees, bumble bees, solitary bees, hoverflies, and an 'other' category containing butterflies, beetles, and wasps.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026

"Since the first trees were planted, there has been a spectacular increase in butterflies, dragonflies, and biodiversity in general," said the 43-year-old, who took over running the family's Cascina Oschina farm in 2012.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

Other images were less place-centric—an MRI, a candle, a horde of monarch butterflies, the storm of the Señora’s tears.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

She was just going to have to ignore the butterflies.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

“The shucked abalone is trimmed, butterflied, and thwacked lightly with a mallet.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

The recipe calls for a butterflied chicken to be lacquered in a mixture of thyme, black pepper, fennel seed and olive oil, then roasted with garlic, onions, lemon and white wine.

From Salon ● Mar. 15, 2023

His Lincoln Logs is a butterflied frank layered with cream cheese, a version that sort of splits the difference between the classic sandwich and a Seattle dog.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 1, 2021

Instead, she butterflied a pork belly and rolled it around a pork loin, fat side out.

From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2021

I sat as far away from him as possible without falling off the bench, elbows butterflied to give me even more room.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

“I came back to butterflying out of the blue - a childhood passion rekindled nine years ago at a butterfly gathering in the Blue Mountains.”

From Washington Times ● Jul. 24, 2016

Unlike the pursuit of birding, butterflying takes place at a civilized hour because butterflies don’t come out until the day warms to at least 60 degrees.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 9, 2016

Jazmin starts by butterflying a chicken thigh with a deft stroke of her knife.

From Salon ● May 21, 2012

He came butterflying and frog-kicking down the final lap of the 220-yard breaststroke race to win.

From Time Magazine Archive

But I like the Professor; and his philosophic views have an interest for me that they evidently 56do not possess for natures which will be always butterflying about.

From Happy-Thought Hall by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand


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