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cabbage butterfly

DEFINITIONS OF: cabbage butterfly

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n white butterfly whose larvae (cabbageworms) feed on cabbage

Types:
Pieris rapae, small white
small widely distributed form
Pieris brassicae, large white
Old World form of cabbage butterfly
Pieris protodice, southern cabbage butterfly
common North American form of cabbage butterfly
Type of:
pierid, pierid butterfly
any of numerous pale-colored butterflies having three pairs of well-developed legs
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