CABBAGE BUTTERFLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cabbage butterfly mean? 

• CABBAGE BUTTERFLY (noun)
  The noun CABBAGE BUTTERFLY has 1 sense:

1. white butterfly whose larvae (cabbageworms) feed on cabbage

  Familiarity information: CABBAGE BUTTERFLY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CABBAGE BUTTERFLY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

White butterfly whose larvae (cabbageworms) feed on cabbage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("cabbage butterfly" is a kind of...):

pierid; pierid butterfly (any of numerous pale-colored butterflies having three pairs of well-developed legs)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cabbage butterfly"):

Pieris rapae; small white (small widely distributed form)

large white; Pieris brassicae (Old World form of cabbage butterfly)

Pieris protodice; southern cabbage butterfly (common North American form of cabbage butterfly)

Holonyms ("cabbage butterfly" is a member of...):

family Pieridae; Pieridae (arthropod family including cabbage butterflies; sulphur butterflies)