cabbage butterfly

Definition of cabbage butterfly

cab´bage butterfly
1.(Zool.) a white butterfly (Pieris rapæ of both Europe and America, and the allied Pieris oleracea, a native American species) which, in the larval state, devours the leaves of the cabbage and the turnip. See also Cabbage worm, below.

Related Words

family Pieridae, large white, pierid, pierid butterfly, Pieridae, Pieris brassicae, Pieris protodice, Pieris rapae, small white, southern cabbage butterfly
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