Butterfly
noun
A type of insect with large, often colorful wings.
The butterfly landed gently on a nearby flower.
Often appears as...
- butterfly effect
- butterfly garden
noun
A swimming stroke in which both arms are thrown forward together out of the water while the feet kick up and down.
He is proficient at the butterfly stroke.
Often appears as...
- butterfly stroke
- butterfly kick
noun
A person who is often changing their interests or activities.
She's a social butterfly who loves parties.
Often appears as...
- social butterfly
- like a butterfly
noun
A type of surgery mask worn by doctors or nurses during a surgery.
The surgeon wore a butterfly mask during the operation.
Often appears as...
- butterfly mask
- butterfly face mask
noun
A type of short needle with two plastic wings used to easily draw blood or administer fluids.
The nurse used a butterfly needle for the blood draw.
Often appears as...
- butterfly needle
- butterfly cannula
noun
An investor's strategy in options trading that uses different strike prices for a riskless profit.
He used a butterfly spread to limit his risk in options trading.
Often appears as...
- butterfly spread
- butterfly option
noun
A type of colorful seafood dish.
The chef prepared a delicious butterfly prawn for the guests.
Often appears as...
- butterfly prawn
- butterfly shrimp
noun
A type of insect with large, often colorful wings.
The butterfly landed gently on a nearby flower.
Often appears as...
- butterfly effect
- butterfly garden
noun
A swimming stroke in which both arms are thrown forward together out of the water while the feet kick up and down.
He is proficient at the butterfly stroke.
Often appears as...
- butterfly stroke
- butterfly kick
noun
A person who is often changing their interests or activities.
She's a social butterfly who loves parties.
Often appears as...
- social butterfly
- like a butterfly
noun
A type of surgery mask worn by doctors or nurses during a surgery.
The surgeon wore a butterfly mask during the operation.
Often appears as...
- butterfly mask
- butterfly face mask
noun
A type of short needle with two plastic wings used to easily draw blood or administer fluids.
The nurse used a butterfly needle for the blood draw.
Often appears as...
- butterfly needle
- butterfly cannula
noun
An investor's strategy in options trading that uses different strike prices for a riskless profit.
He used a butterfly spread to limit his risk in options trading.
Often appears as...
- butterfly spread
- butterfly option
noun
A type of colorful seafood dish.
The chef prepared a delicious butterfly prawn for the guests.
Often appears as...
- butterfly prawn
- butterfly shrimp
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Pro Tip 1/3Metaphorical Use
The beauty of butterflies can symbolize transformation or rebirth in literature and art.
Her journey from a shy girl to a confident woman was like the metamorphosis of a butterfly.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Significance
Butterflies might have different meanings in cultures, such as representing a loved one's spirit in some traditions.
In our village, a butterfly landing on your shoulder is a visit from an ancestor’s spirit.
Pro Tip 3/3Nature Conservation
Conversations around butterflies often involve topics of environmental protection and biodiversity.
The decline in butterfly populations is an alarming indicator of environmental issues.
Pro Tip 1/3Metaphorical Use
The beauty of butterflies can symbolize transformation or rebirth in literature and art.
Her journey from a shy girl to a confident woman was like the metamorphosis of a butterfly.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Significance
Butterflies might have different meanings in cultures, such as representing a loved one's spirit in some traditions.
In our village, a butterfly landing on your shoulder is a visit from an ancestor’s spirit.
Pro Tip 3/3Nature Conservation
Conversations around butterflies often involve topics of environmental protection and biodiversity.
The decline in butterfly populations is an alarming indicator of environmental issues.
Pro Tip 1/3Metaphorical Use
The beauty of butterflies can symbolize transformation or rebirth in literature and art.
Her journey from a shy girl to a confident woman was like the metamorphosis of a butterfly.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Significance
Butterflies might have different meanings in cultures, such as representing a loved one's spirit in some traditions.
In our village, a butterfly landing on your shoulder is a visit from an ancestor’s spirit.
Pro Tip 3/3Nature Conservation
Conversations around butterflies often involve topics of environmental protection and biodiversity.
The decline in butterfly populations is an alarming indicator of environmental issues.
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The science of symmetry...
from tangible things like butterflies, to abstract entities like geometric shapes. So, what does it mean for an object to be symmetric? Here's the a symmetry is a transformation that leaves that object unchanged. Okay, that sounds a bit abstract, so let's unpack it. It will help to look at a particular example,
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Can wildlife adapt to...
to protect themselves against the herbivores that become more common when it's warm. These plants and animals belong to a group of about 20 identified species with evolutionary adaptations to rapid climate change, including snapping turtles, wood frogs, knotweed, and silver spotted skipper butterflies.
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Monarch Butterflies Get...
the tag is made out of a small battery like a hearing aid battery the little circuit and it just beeps and we received this over the radio in an antenna and that allows us to follow the Eman they only have a few habitat places if those areas are destroyed then there's no monarch butterflies anymore
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Why do we kiss under...
porcupines, robins, bluebirds, morning doves, and the butterfly genus Delias. Some mistletoe species produce dense bushes, which are excellent nesting locations for a variety of birds. And despite their parasitic relationship with trees, mistletoes can also help other plants.
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Why are there so many...
Take butterflies. In their larval caterpillar form, they chomp hungrily through leaves at a rapid rate to help them grow and spin cocoons. But when they emerge as butterflies, these insects feed only on flower nectar. Metamorphosis means the larvae and adults of one species
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Give yourself permission...
Your lover's pretty beautiful. I have four kids. Watching them play? Watching them pretend to be a butterfly or run around the house and doing anything, it's so beautiful. And I believe that we are here on this star in space to try to help one another. Right?
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Why are human bodies...
Symmetry is everywhere in nature, and we usually associate it with a perfectly shaped leaf, or a butterfly with intricate patterns mirrored on each wing. But it turns out that asymmetry is pretty important, too, and more common than you might think,
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An algorithm for happily...
butterflies in the stomach head spinning experience of falling in love it's really one of the best experiences that we have in this life and sometimes it's so good the people hope that that happiness lasts for a lifetime for
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How bees help plants...
Pollinators include many species of bees, butterflies, moths, flies, wasps, beetles, even birds and bats, who together help pollinate many species of trees, shrubs and other flowering plants.
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Beautiful Butterfly...
what he found there helped to reveal how butterflies can benefit from climate change in summer the painted lady is one of
Video examples
The science of symmetry...
from tangible things like butterflies, to abstract entities like geometric shapes. So, what does it mean for an object to be symmetric? Here's the a symmetry is a transformation that leaves that object unchanged. Okay, that sounds a bit abstract, so let's unpack it. It will help to look at a particular example,
Video examples
Can wildlife adapt to...
to protect themselves against the herbivores that become more common when it's warm. These plants and animals belong to a group of about 20 identified species with evolutionary adaptations to rapid climate change, including snapping turtles, wood frogs, knotweed, and silver spotted skipper butterflies.
Video examples
Monarch Butterflies Get...
the tag is made out of a small battery like a hearing aid battery the little circuit and it just beeps and we received this over the radio in an antenna and that allows us to follow the Eman they only have a few habitat places if those areas are destroyed then there's no monarch butterflies anymore
Video examples
Why do we kiss under...
porcupines, robins, bluebirds, morning doves, and the butterfly genus Delias. Some mistletoe species produce dense bushes, which are excellent nesting locations for a variety of birds. And despite their parasitic relationship with trees, mistletoes can also help other plants.
Video examples
Why are there so many...
Take butterflies. In their larval caterpillar form, they chomp hungrily through leaves at a rapid rate to help them grow and spin cocoons. But when they emerge as butterflies, these insects feed only on flower nectar. Metamorphosis means the larvae and adults of one species
Video examples
Give yourself permission...
Your lover's pretty beautiful. I have four kids. Watching them play? Watching them pretend to be a butterfly or run around the house and doing anything, it's so beautiful. And I believe that we are here on this star in space to try to help one another. Right?
Video examples
Why are human bodies...
Symmetry is everywhere in nature, and we usually associate it with a perfectly shaped leaf, or a butterfly with intricate patterns mirrored on each wing. But it turns out that asymmetry is pretty important, too, and more common than you might think,
Video examples
An algorithm for happily...
butterflies in the stomach head spinning experience of falling in love it's really one of the best experiences that we have in this life and sometimes it's so good the people hope that that happiness lasts for a lifetime for
Video examples
How bees help plants...
Pollinators include many species of bees, butterflies, moths, flies, wasps, beetles, even birds and bats, who together help pollinate many species of trees, shrubs and other flowering plants.
Video examples
Beautiful Butterfly...
what he found there helped to reveal how butterflies can benefit from climate change in summer the painted lady is one of
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Marketa Irglova
Czechoslovakian Musician
Making something and sending it out into the world and then people not only responding to it but adopting it for their own and making a separate thing for it, that's beautiful. It just shows you how much you can affect other people... the butterfly effect of everything you put out into the world.
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Cody Simpson
Australian Musician
Swimming is definitely a big passion that I have, but I was a champion for the butterfly and the free style and stuff. It was a hard decision if I wanted to move to the U.S. to get into music, but I was grateful that I had two choices and many things to do.
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Hans Haacke
German Artist
When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that.
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John Starks
American Athlete
There were butterflies, otherwise, you're not really ready to play. The locker room, I remember, was quiet and we were very focused on playing that game.
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Arunachalam Muruganantham
Indian Businessman
Social entrepreneurship is like a butterfly, sucking honey from a flower, but the flower won't die. They're helping the flower to make pollination.
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Andrew Robertson
Scottish Athlete
There is no point in getting nervous. I get a few butterflies in my stomach, but it isn't really nerves but things that will help your game.
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Vladimir Nabokov
American Novelist
Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.
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Sarah Jeffery
Canadian Actress
My life is not, you know, all rainbows and butterflies.
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Charles Dickens
English Novelist
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
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Muhammad Ali
American Boxer
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
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Marketa Irglova
Czechoslovakian Musician
Making something and sending it out into the world and then people not only responding to it but adopting it for their own and making a separate thing for it, that's beautiful. It just shows you how much you can affect other people... the butterfly effect of everything you put out into the world.
Quote examples
Cody Simpson
Australian Musician
Swimming is definitely a big passion that I have, but I was a champion for the butterfly and the free style and stuff. It was a hard decision if I wanted to move to the U.S. to get into music, but I was grateful that I had two choices and many things to do.
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Hans Haacke
German Artist
When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that.
Quote examples
John Starks
American Athlete
There were butterflies, otherwise, you're not really ready to play. The locker room, I remember, was quiet and we were very focused on playing that game.
Quote examples
Arunachalam Muruganantham
Indian Businessman
Social entrepreneurship is like a butterfly, sucking honey from a flower, but the flower won't die. They're helping the flower to make pollination.
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Andrew Robertson
Scottish Athlete
There is no point in getting nervous. I get a few butterflies in my stomach, but it isn't really nerves but things that will help your game.
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Vladimir Nabokov
American Novelist
Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.
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Sarah Jeffery
Canadian Actress
My life is not, you know, all rainbows and butterflies.
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Charles Dickens
English Novelist
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
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Muhammad Ali
American Boxer
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
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