CABBAGE BUTTERFLY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

White butterfly whose larvae (cabbageworms) feed on cabbage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("cabbage butterfly" is a kind of...):

pierid; pierid butterfly (any of numerous pale-colored butterflies having three pairs of well-developed legs)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cabbage butterfly"):

Pieris rapae; small white (small widely distributed form)

large white; Pieris brassicae (Old World form of cabbage butterfly)

Pieris protodice; southern cabbage butterfly (common North American form of cabbage butterfly)

Holonyms ("cabbage butterfly" is a member of...):

family Pieridae; Pieridae (arthropod family including cabbage butterflies; sulphur butterflies)