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(by ellipsis) butterflies in one's stomach
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A flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from moths by their diurnal activity and generally brighter colouring.
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A use of surgical tape, cut into thin strips and placed across an open wound to hold it closed.
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butterfly tape
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The butterfly stroke.
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(in plural) A sensation of excited anxiety felt in the stomach.
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I get terrible butterflies before an exam.
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Someone seen as being unserious and (originally) dressed gaudily; someone flighty and unreliable.
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To cut (food) almost entirely in half and spread the halves apart, in a shape suggesting the wings of a butterfly.
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Butterfly the chicken before you grill it.
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To cut strips of surgical tape or plasters into thin strips, and place across (a gaping wound) to close it.
Examples of butterflies in a Sentence
We chase butterflies, and sometimes catch one.
There are thousands of varieties of butterflies and other insects.
Butterflies and moths are remarkable for their number, size, variety and beauty.
But there are also a number of tropical species, notably among butterflies and beetles.
As regards invertebrates, very few species or genera are peculiar to Liberia so far as is yet known, though there are probably one or two butterflies of local range.
The innumerable butterflies and dragon-flies have gorgeous colourings.
On the Amazons and in other parts of South America there are butterflies of the group Ithomiinae which are distasteful and have all the characters of specially protected species, being conspicuously coloured, slow of flight, careless of exposure and abundant in individuals.
The forests literally swarm with insects of all kinds, from cicadae to beautiful butterflies, and from stickand leaf-insects to endless.
The ingenious explanation suggested by Fritz Muller for similar cases met with in butterflies is probably the true answer.
Mosquitoes, termites, bees, ants, centipedes, millipedes, locusts, grasshoppers, butterflies, dragonflies, sandflies and spiders' are found in immense numbers.
Besides the aphids, other insects, such as scale insects (Coccidae), caterpillars of blue butterflies (Lycaenidae), and numerous beetles, furnish the ants with nutrient secretions.
His classification was founded mainly on the nature of the wings, and five of his orders - the Hymenoptera (bees, ants, wasps, &c.), Coleoptera (beetles), Diptera (two-winged flies), Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies), and Hemiptera (bugs, cicads, &c.) - are recognized to-day with nearly the same limits as he laid down.
The Himalayan butterflies are very numerous and brilliant, for the most part belonging to groups that extend both into the Malayan and European regions, while African forms also appear.
Of the latter there are probably 12,000 to 15,000 species, including 140 butterflies, at least 180 grasshoppers, several hundred bees, &c. The so-called " grass hoppers," true locusts, have done great damage at times in Nebraska.
Insect life is represented by plant-bugs, locusts, crickets, grasshoppers, cockroaches, dragon-flies, butterflies, numerous varieties of moths, bees and mosquitoes.
He'd get over these butterflies about letting her run the business when he discovered she could do it without his direction.
Among butterflies (chOchO) Rein gives prominence to the broad-winged kind (Papilio), which recall tropical brilliancy.
To the traveller, the most conspicuous among the Mexican insects, perhaps, are the butterflies, beetles, ants and the myriads of mosquitoes, midges, fleas and chinches.
The insect life comprises many brilliantly-coloured beetles, butterflies (about eight hundred species of which are known), moths, locusts, spiders and flies, and also noxious spiders, with scorpions and centipedes.
Butterflies, moths and bees are very abundant, the former being remarkable for their size and splendid coloration; but these groups have not been investigated exhaustively enough to afford a correct idea of their number or their true affinities.
Birds and mammals take the first place; the leading collections devote a good deal of attention to reptiles and batrachians; fishes and aquatic invertebrata are most often to be found only when there are special aquaria, whilst non-aquatic invertebrates are seldom to be seen and at most consist of a few moths and butterflies, spiders, scorpions and centipedes, molluscs and crustaceans.
In the above-cited historical instance of mimicry amongst some South American Lepidoptera which formed the foundation of Bates' theory, species of butterflies, belonging to the Ithomiine genus Itura and the Danaine genus Thyridia, both unpalatable forms, resemble each other.
Reptiles - snakes, lizards and chameleons, crocodiles, turtles and an enormous variant of the edible Indian crab - are numerous; butterflies and insects, the latter very troublesome, have not yet been systematically collected.
Out of 118 species of butterflies, belonging to four important classes, no fewer than 86 are peculiar; while among the rose-chafers or Cetoniinae the same is the case in 19 out of 30.
There were butterflies, too, including the red admiral.
The happiest specimens of this glass almost rival the wings of butterflies in the brilliancy of their iridescent colours.
Harpy and Crested Eagles hunt here and we'll see colonies of leafcutter ants and myriad butterflies.
Butterflies include the dark green and Duke of Burgundy fritillary, chalkhill blue, brown Argus and silver-spotted skipper.
It is decked with racemes of small fragrant white blossoms in spring which attract butterflies and bees.
The banks are full of wild plants including buddleia, thistles and nettles, all of which provide habitats for butterflies and other insects.
Very few have been seen this year, although September saw a surge in the numbers of Peacock Butterflies seen on garden buddleia bushes.
It is also alive with insects including orange-tip and meadow brown butterflies and five-spot burnet moth.
Island Canaries and a few chaffinches were in some fields and along the roadside verge were some Small Blue butterflies.
And as it turns out, Monarch larvae and butterflies actually do better in Bt cornfields than in cornfields sprayed with insecticides.
We saw many birds around Koshi including brown hawk owls, brown fish owls, owlets and Indian coursers and large colorful butterflies.
Shrubs come in all shapes and sizes -- Buddleia for butterflies, flowering currant, hebe and mahonia for bees.
Butterflies, including meadow brown, common blue and dark green fritillary, add more color to the forest rides.
Migrant hawker and black-tailed skimmer are two of the dragonflies commonly recorded and regularly seen butterflies include small copper, common blue and brimstone.
For example, if your poem is like the lyrics from "Butterfly Kisses", include photos with butterflies and add butterfly-themed papers and embellishments.
You'll find everything form raccoons to butterflies to dolphins, there's an animal image tote perfect for any animal lover.
These designs are eye catching and charmingly childlike; everything from fire trucks to butterflies to wild life can be found here.
Just as the name promises, the front of this pack features Dora and Boots chasing beautifully decorated and brilliantly colored butterflies.
From small, innocent butterflies to slithering snakes, female tat designs can take many forms.
Women often choose more feminine symbols, such as butterflies, dolphins, or the dragonfly, for their body art, giving the rise in popularity of dragonflies.
These creatures are as small as butterflies or even moths, and often have magical abilities to enact either good or evil upon the humans they encounter.
Ecological entomology, 10, 1 - 7. Suppliers A useful source of butterflies is Worldwide Butterflies, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 4QN.
Us was about butterflies flutter above plunging my arms forward winds i mumble.
The Keihin sequential fuel injection features two throttle butterflies per cylinder.
The butterflies usually oviposit on nettles growing in smallish clumps in sunny woodland glades, or in the vicinity of hedgerows.
Common and conspicuous insects include grasshoppers, earwigs, and many species of beetles, butterflies and moths.