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ˈorange-tip
[f. orange A. 5, B. 1 + tip.]
In full orange-tip butterfly, a butterfly having wings tipped with orange, esp. Anthocharis cardamines and (in America) E. genutia. Also orange-tipped a.
Only the male has orange tips on the wings.
1819G. Samouelle Entomol. Compend. 236 Orange tip butterfly inhabits pathways in woods. 1845Zoologist III. 991, I took one beautiful orange-tip on the 2d of June. 1829Glover's Hist. Derby I. 174 Papilio Cardamines, Orange-tipped Butterfly. 1906R. South Butterflies Brit. Isles 43 The Orange-tip..has a large patch of orange colour on the outer third of its white, or creamy white, fore wings. 1930Times Educ. Suppl. 4 Oct. p. iv/4 The little orange-tip flickering along the hedgeside. 1973T. G. Howarth South's Brit. Butterflies 58 The Orange-tip is essentially a butterfly of lanes, hedgerows and rough fields. 1973Shooting Times & Country Mag. 7 July 20/2 An orange-tip butterfly went fluttering by. |