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butterfly English

Learners of English as a second language usually know the word butterfly once they have reached the level C1 – Advanced. English words by learner level A1 A2 B1 B2 C1 C2

Meaning butterfly meaning

What does butterfly mean?

Definitions in simple English

butterfly Noun

— A butterfly is an insect with large, often colourful wings.

butterfly

— noun diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings

— noun a swimming stroke in which the arms are thrown forward together out of the water while the feet kick up and down

— verb cut and spread open, as in preparation for cooking butterflied shrimp

— verb flutter like a butterfly

— verb (= chat up, flirt) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions The guys always try to chat up the new secretaries My husband never flirts with other women

Synonyms butterfly synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as butterfly?

butterfly English » English

butterflies

moth

butterfly stroke

coquette

coquet

romance

philander

mash

flirt

dally

chat up

turning valve

true butterfly

true butterflies

trailing leaf

throttle flap

swallowtail

sulfur butterfly

strangler

sprint

skitter

scatterbrain

lepidopteran

leaf

kete

katy

insect

gusset

gore

gate throttle

foureye butterflyfish

four-eyed butteflyfish

four-eye butterflyfish

fly

elephant

crotch

butterfly spread

butterfly moths

butterfly moth

butterfly fish

butterbun

Topics butterfly topics

What do people use butterfly to talk about?

Universe, creation Animal Types of animals

Insect

• What species of insects are there?
  ant army ant armyworm bedbug bee beetle bluebottle fly botfly bristletail bumblebee butterfly carpenter bee chigger cicada cockroach cricket daddy longlegs damselfly deerfly dragonfly dung beetle earwig firefly flea fly glowworm gnat grasshopper hawkmoth hellgramite honeybee hornet horsefly housefly inchworm jigger katydid ladybug leafhopper lice locust long-horned beetle louse mantis mayfly midge millipede mite monarch butterfly mosquito moth mud wasp nit praying mantis roach sawfly scarab silkworm silverfish stinkbug swallowtail termite tick tsetse fly tumblebug walking stick wasp weevil wiggler wriggler

Examples butterfly examples

How do I use butterfly in a sentence?

Simple sentences

This caterpillar will become a beautiful butterfly.

The butterfly flutters.

A caterpillar becomes a butterfly.

Oh, there's a butterfly!

Is it a butterfly or a moth?

It takes two years for the butterfly to mature.

You are a beautiful butterfly.

I caught a beautiful butterfly.

A butterfly is a mature caterpillar.

The caterpillar turned into a butterfly.

This catterpillar will turn into a beautiful butterfly.

He saw a butterfly on the wall.

The lifetime of a butterfly is three days.

A bat flying in the sky looks like a butterfly.

A hummingbird is no larger than a butterfly.

Movie subtitles

Previously on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend if you're getting your butterfly smashed, I am all for it.

I prefer the butterfly.

You're just a butterfly.

Now I'm a butterfly.

Oh, Professor, I didn't recognize you without your butterfly necktie.

I ain't no butterfly!

That's a butterfly.

Butterfly?

Butterfly.

That's a very common type of butterfly.

I've found a rare and beautiful butterfly, Euvanesse antiope.

Changed into a pretty little butterfly.

A butterfly.

I'll get up, I'll open the window, and I'll let your heart fly out, as free as a butterfly.

Good morning my pretty little butterfly.

Where are you off to anyway, Madame Butterfly?

The butterfly design on your coat.

I keep feeling that two men with butterfly nets are going to creep up behind you and lead you away.

A butterfly has perched on your shoulder.

Green dragon on his chest, butterfly on the shoulders.

Why, you old social butterfly, you.

I know the song about the caterpillar who loves a butterfly.

And now, it'll look as if I've got turned down for a knobby-kneed clown with a butterfly net.

We open the cocoon but it is not a butterfly that emerges.

Where's my butterfly net?

What do you think this is, a butterfly dance?

This is a lizard, and this will be a butterfly when it's finished.

Something to do with a butterfly.

No. Amy slapped Donald because he hurt the butterfly. - It was her friend.

Your nocturnal butterfly!

You see, son. It's alright to live in a cocoon like this if you expect to be a butterfly someday.

Uh, fix the toast, Madame Butterfly.

News and current affairs

Yet there is a sense that progress and understanding will require something new - an economics of virtuous circles, thresholds, and butterfly effects, in which small changes have very large effects.

Mortals see death as the gateway to true life, much as a caterpillar might look at a butterfly.