SMALL WHITE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does small white mean? 

• SMALL WHITE (noun)
  The noun SMALL WHITE has 1 sense:

1. small widely distributed form

  Familiarity information: SMALL WHITE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SMALL WHITE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small widely distributed form

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Pieris rapae; small white

Hypernyms ("small white" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("small white" is a member of...):

genus Pieris; Pieris (type genus of the Pieridae)

 Context examples 

It usually has small white markings on the feet, chest, tail, tip, and sometimes face.

(Nova Scotia Duck-Tolling Retriever, NCI Thesaurus)

Cocaine can also be made into small white rocks, called crack.

(Cocaine, NIH: National Institute on Drug Abuse)

It is characterized by small white ulcerative lesions, single or multiple, round or oval, lasting for 7-14 days and healing without scarring.

(Canker Sore, NCI Thesaurus)

It may appear as a small white or flesh-colored bump that grows slowly and may bleed.

(Basal cell cancer, NCI Dictionary)

While she was absent, and out of hearing, a small white spaniel that belonged to one of the chief gardeners, having got by accident into the garden, happened to range near the place where I lay: the dog, following the scent, came directly up, and taking me in his mouth, ran straight to his master wagging his tail, and set me gently on the ground.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The soft coat is well feathered and comes in four colors varieties: King Charles (black and tan), Ruby (solid red, sometimes with a few white hairs or small white patch on the chest), Blenheim (white with red markings, often with a red thumb print centered on the top of the head), and Prince Charles (tri-color: white with black and tan markings).

(English Toy Spaniel, NCI Thesaurus)

A dress of rose-coloured satin, very short, and as full in the skirt as it could be gathered, replaced the brown frock she had previously worn; a wreath of rosebuds circled her forehead; her feet were dressed in silk stockings and small white satin sandals.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"That's because your mother wanted to show you off." Her face bent into the single wrinkle of the small white neck. "You dream, you. You absolute little dream."

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)