butterfly

«butterfly» in Mova's school dictionary: an insect with four large, often brightly coloured wings… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a butterfly, butterflies)

meaning for a pupil

1) A butterfly is an insect with four large, often brightly coloured wings that flies by day. tree →

2) Butterflies in your stomach is a fluttery feeling when you are nervous. tree →

3) Butterfly (stroke) is a swimming stroke where both arms move over the water together. tree →

4) A social butterfly is a person who moves happily from friend to friend. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science, the butterfly life cycle is a famous example of complete metamorphosis: egg, caterpillar (larva), chrysalis (pupa), adult butterfly. Butterflies drink nectar and help pollinate flowers. In feelings lessons, butterflies in your tummy are a normal sign of nerves. Phrases: butterflies in my stomach, butterfly stroke, social butterfly, butterfly net.

examples

• A butterfly landed on the flower. tree →
• A caterpillar turns into a butterfly. tree →
• Butterflies drink nectar from flowers. tree →
• I had butterflies in my stomach before the play. tree →
• She swam the butterfly in the race. tree →
• The butterfly came out of its chrysalis. tree →
• Suppose I hunt butterflies, and you, serpents.” tree →

note

Plural butterflies (y changes to ies). Butterflies usually fly by day and fold wings up; moths usually fly at night and rest with wings flat. Butterflies have six legs, like all insects. Touching wings can rub off their tiny scales and harm them.

In the corpora

• Butterflies and flies taste with their feet, so a red admiral landing on a rotting plum is tasting it as it lands.
• Butterflies have taste sensors on their feet and drink through a long tube called a proboscis that stays rolled up like a party blower.
• Owl butterflies have large eye spots on the underside of their wings that may startle birds or draw their pecks away from the body.
• The glasswing butterfly has clear patches on its wings with few scales, which makes it hard to see against leaves and flowers.
• A caterpillar turns into a butterfly inside a chrysalis, where its body breaks down and is rebuilt.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «butterfly» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.