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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
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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Translations for butterfly
Butterfly through the time
Butterfly across language varieties
South Africa
Common
Australia
Common
United Kingdom
Common
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