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Meanings of milkweed butterfly in English
Portuguese
borboleta-monarca Catalan
monarca 
Large migratory American butterfly having deep orange wings with black and white markings; the larvae feed on milkweed.
Synonyms
Examples for "monarch"
Examples for "monarch"
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The number of monarch butterflies seems to be eroding year after year.
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Citizen scientists are needed to help tag monarch butterflies in New Zealand.
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In the telephone poll with the question: Do you want a monarch?
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He did not merely rule in the manner of a common monarch.
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But, the reality is that being the monarch involves serious hard graft.
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The koala bear can eat eucalyptus leaves, and monarch butterfly caterpillars milkweed.
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Ms Knight says monarch butterfly numbers have also dropped in North America recently.
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The monarch butterfly had no right to be this far north.
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The monarch butterfly is synonymous with New Zealand summers.
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Mariposa was the Mexican term for the monarch butterfly.
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The orange-and-black monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus, has been snatched from the spectacular migration that remains both a world wonder and a nourishing scientific mystery.
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Danaus plexippus laid its eggs in North America, then died.
Usage of milkweed butterfly in English
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If one should ask him, What's the shape of the milkweed butterfly's wing, and the color of the spice-bush swallowtail, Peter Champneys?