| 单词 | monarch butterfly |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmonarch butterfly 3. More fully monarch butterfly. A large migratory orange and black danaid butterfly, Danaus plexippus, native to the Americas and known as a vagrant in western Europe. Also called milkweed butterfly. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Rhopalocera (butterflies) > [noun] > family Nymphalidae > subfamily Danainae > danais plexippus (monarch) milkweed butterfly1880 monarch1889 1889 Cent. Mag. Sept. 650 But what do we find in the instance of the Monarch or Archippus butterfly, the protegé of the milkweeds? 1893 F. O. Morris Hist. Brit. Butterflies 71 The Monarch..is one of the commonest species throughout a great part of North America. 1945 E. B. Ford Butterflies i. 23 The Milkweed, Monarch, or Black-veined Brown Butterfly, Danaus plexippus... The first specimen [in Britain] was caught by Mr. J. Stafford at Neath, South Wales, on September 6th, 1876. 1975 Country Life 20 Feb. 450/1 The magnificent black-veined brown or monarch butterfly, that rare migrant to Britain. 1992 C. P. Estés Women who run with Wolves 5 I learned about the sacred art of self-decoration with monarch butterflies perched atop my head. 1997 Nature 1 May 29/2 In the absence of celestial cues on overcast days..monarchs still manage to orient toward the south-southwest. < as lemmas |
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