cabbage butterfly

/ˌkæbɪdʒ ˌbʌdərˈflaɪ/

Other forms: cabbage butterflies

Definitions of cabbage butterfly

1. noun

   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