butterfly butterfly stroke | a swimming stroke in which the arms are thrown forward together out of the water while the feet kick up and down |
butterfly ray | a stingray with a short tail and a broad fin |
wool fleece | outer coat of especially sheep and yaks |
cotton stainer | a true bug: bug that damages and stains the lint of developing cotton |
cotton strain | feeds primarily on cotton |
butterfly | diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings |
nymphalid nymphalid butterfly brush-footed butterfly four-footed butterfly | medium to large butterflies found worldwide typically having brightly colored wings and mucheduced nonfunctional forelegs carried folded on the breast |
mourning cloak mourning cloak butterfly Camberwell beauty Nymphalis antiopa | of temperate regions, having dark purple wings with yellow borders |
tortoiseshell tortoiseshell butterfly | brilliantly colored, larvae feed on nettles |
ringlet ringlet butterfly | any of various butterflies belonging to the family Satyridae |
comma comma butterfly Polygonia comma | anglewing butterfly with a comma-shaped mark on the underside of each hind wing |
emperor butterfly emperor | large richly colored butterfly |
peacock peacock butterfly Inachis io | European butterfly having reddish-brown wings each marked with a purple eyespot |
danaid danaid butterfly | large tropical butterfly with degenerate forelegs and an unpleasant taste |
monarch monarch butterfly milkweed butterfly Danaus plexippus | large migratory American butterfly having deep orange wings with black and white markings, the larvae feed on milkweed |
pierid pierid butterfly | any of numerous paleolored butterflies having three pairs of well-developed legs |
cabbage butterfly | white butterfly whose larvae (cabbageworms) feed on cabbage |
southern cabbage butterfly Pieris protodice | common North American form of cabbage butterfly |
sulphur butterfly sulfur butterfly | any of numerous yellow or orange butterflies |
lycaenid lycaenid butterfly | any of various butterflies of the family Lycaenidae |
hairstreak hairstreak butterfly | small butterflies having striped markings under the wings |
corn earworm cotton bollworm tomato fruitworm tobacco budworm vetchworm Heliothis zia | larva of a noctuid moth, highly destructive to especially corn and cotton and tomato crops |
cotton mouse Peromyscus gossypinus | large dark mouse of southeastern United States |
cotton rat Sigmodon hispidus | destructive long-haired burrowing rat of southern North America and Central America |
butterfly fish | small usually brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes having narrow deep bodies with large broad fins, found worldwide |
butterfly valve | a valve in a carburetor that consists of a disc that turns and acts as a throttle |
cotton | fabric woven from cotton fibers |
cotton | thread made of cotton fibers |
cotton flannel Canton flannel | a stout cotton fabric with nap on only one side |
cotton gin gin | a machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers |
cotton mill | a textile mill for making cotton textiles |
steel-wool pad | abrader consisting of a pad of steel wool used for polishing or smoothing |
wing nut wing-nut wing screw butterfly nut thumbnut | a threaded nut with winglike projections for thumb and forefinger leverage in turning |
wool woolen woollen | a fabric made from the hair of sheep |
Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Children | an Apocryphal book consisting of text added to the Book of Daniel |
cotton candy spun sugar candyfloss | a candy made by spinning sugar that has been boiled to a high temperature |
United Nations Children's Fund United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund UNICEF | an agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries |
lepidopterist lepidopterologist butterfly collector | an entomologist who specializes in the collection and study of butterflies and moths |
wool stapler woolsorter | a person who sorts wool into different grades |
wool stapler | a dealer in wool |
butterfly effect | the phenomenon whereby a small change at one place in a complex system can have large effects elsewhere, e.g., a butterfly flapping its wings in Rio de Janeiro might change the weather in Chicago |
baby's breath babies'-breath Gypsophila paniculata | tall plant with small lance-shaped leaves and numerous tiny white or pink flowers |
groundsel tree groundsel bush consumption weed cotton-seed tree Baccharis halimifolia | a shrub of salt marshes of eastern and south central North America and West Indies, fruit is surrounded with white plumelike hairy tufts |
cotton rose cudweed filago | any plant of the genus Filago having capitate clusters of small woolly flower heads |
cotton thistle woolly thistle Scotch thistle Onopordum acanthium Onopordon acanthium | biennial Eurasian white hairy thistle having pale purple flowers, naturalized in North America |
lavender cotton Santolina chamaecyparissus | branching aromatic Mediterranean shrub with woolly stems and leaves and yellow flowers |
butterfly orchid butterfly orchis Orchis papilionaceae | Mediterranean orchid having usually purple flowers with a fan-shaped spotted or striped roseed lip |
butterfly orchid Encyclia tampensis Epidendrum tampense | orchid of Florida and the Bahamas having showy brightly colored flowers, sometimes placed in genus Epidendrum |
butterfly orchid butterfly orchis Epidendrum venosum Encyclia venosa | Mexican epiphytic orchid having pale green or yellow-green flowers with white purple-veined lip |
oncidium dancing lady orchid butterfly plant butterfly orchid | any orchid of the genus Oncidium: characterized by slender branching sprays of small yellow and brown flowers, often grown as houseplants |