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Meanings of butterfly in English

Russian
бабочки
Portuguese
ropalóceros
Catalan
paloma
Spanish
rhopalocera
Wikidata

Insect of the order Lepidoptera.

        бабочки
        Portuguese
        borboletas
        Catalan
        papallona
        Spanish
        mariposa
        Wikidata

        A swimming stroke in which the arms are thrown forward together out of the water while the feet kick up and down.

              borboletas
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              Examples for "butterfly stroke"
              Examples for "butterfly stroke"
              1
              He also broke the record and became the fastest amputee swimmer in the world in the butterfly stroke events.
              The South African
              2
              She strode to the imaginary temple gate, made a butterfly stroke with her white-powdered hands, and delicately extended a step.
              Petals from the sky
              3
              But word got out, and in 2005 the Tokyo company Butterfly Stroke released replicas of two of the papercraft killing machines for $9.
              Wired
              Catalan
              flirtar

              Talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions.

                  flirtar

                  The manual sewing machine used in this project is from an old brand called Butterfly.

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                        Usage of butterfly in English
                        1
                        But none take it as far as the Central American glasswing butterfly.
                        BBC
                        2
                        I mean, really: who breaks a butterfly on a Panamanian shell company?
                        The Guardian
                        3
                        The abdomen under the wings of the butterfly still represents the larva.
                        Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience
                        4
                        The chaos butterfly was a great enough prize to fuel anyone's ambitions.
                        Hex and the city
                        5
                        The chink in his armour could be the 100m butterfly final today.
                        The Guardian
                        6
                        To-day she would be the butterfly, living and rejoicing in the sun.
                        The Imaginary Marriage
                        7
                        Now the butterfly has flown in at the tavern-window, and rebuked me.
                        Heart of Man
                        8
                        The splendid butterfly left its beauty in them before it sailed away.
                        The Extra Day
                        9
                        On and on floated the leaf, the little maiden and the butterfly.
                        Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories / The Young Folks Treasu...
                        10
                        In my lap was the small gift, wrapped in blue butterfly paper.
                        Tell the Wolves I’m Home
                        11
                        Immediately thereafter he spoke to the butterfly in its own language, saying:
                        American Fairy Tales
                        12
                        A butterfly is seen on a butterfly farm in Penang Island, Malaysia.
                        Reuters
                        13
                        She was like a white butterfly flitting before him in the twilight.
                        Charles Rex
                        14
                        The tortoise and the butterfly are alike incapable of preventing their destruction.
                        The System of Nature, or, the Laws of the Moral and Physical Wor...
                        15
                        Above the drooping flowers, poised the red wings of a descending butterfly.
                        At the Mercy of Tiberius
                        16
                        The butterfly dies of the frost-andthere is an end of them.
                        All Saints' Day and Other Sermons
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                        Butterfly through the time
                        Butterfly across language varieties
                        South Africa
                        Common
                        Australia
                        Common
                        United Kingdom
                        Common
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