| NOUN | animal | cabbage butterfly | white butterfly whose larvae (cabbageworms) feed on cabbage |
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| Meaning | white butterfly whose larvae (cabbageworms) feed on cabbage. | |
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| Member of | Pieridae, family Pieridae | arthropod family including cabbage butterflies |
| Narrower | large white, Pieris brassicae | Old World form of cabbage butterfly |
| small white, Pieris rapae | small widely distributed form | |
| southern cabbage butterfly, Pieris protodice | Common North American form of cabbage butterfly | |
| Broader | pierid, pierid butterfly | Any of numerous pale-colored butterflies having three pairs of well-developed legs |
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