Butterflies is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BUTTERFLIES in dictionary:

VERB:
• BUTTERFLY, to split almost entirely and spread apart e.g. a steak
• split (a piece of meat or fish) almost in two and spread it out flat
NOUN:
• a nectar-feeding insect with two pairs of large, typically brightly coloured wings that are covered with microscopic scales. Butterflies are distinguished from moths by having clubbed or dilated antennae, holding their wings erect when at rest, and being active by day.
• having a two-lobed shape resembling the spread wings of a butterfly
• a showy or frivolous person
• a fluttering and nauseous sensation felt in the stomach when one is nervous.
• a stroke in swimming in which both arms are raised out of the water and lifted forwards together.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• any of numerous slender-bodied diurnal lepidopteran insects including one superfamily (Papilionoidea) with broad often brightly colored wings and usually another superfamily comprising the skippers

Words related to BUTTERFLIES

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How to use BUTTERFLIES in a sentence

• Ask the bees, The butterflies, the birds, the little girls.
• The butterflies we must chase hovered rather along urban ways.
• I learnt from him that butterflies are insects that are more closely related to plants than to insects.
• At a foreign barrack once, the happiest officer I met, because the most regularly employed, was one who spent his time in collecting butterflies.
• The breeze was so strong that it took the butterflies half off their air-legs, and they fairly reeled about in the sun.
• And our young couple? MEPHISTOPHELES They have flown up there, The wanton butterflies! MARTHA He seems to take to her.
• They came to a puddle in the road where there was a dance of butterflies.
• There were some elms close by, and their half-opened leaves, dainty and frail, reminded him of clouds of butterflies.
• A multitude of fish of strange form, fascinated by the blinding light, swam curiously about the canoe like butterflies.
• Caterpillars and butterflies often show us a further step in advance in the direction of minute imitation of ordinary surroundings.
• And always I saw the meadow as we had found it that first day with drifts of white butterflies over the flowers, and the woods warm and beckoning.
• As the men passed a pious youth, named Paul, who had charge of two oxen, the hosts flew up in the air, and became like beautiful butterflies.
• And what was once called the secret and secrecy of profound souls, belongeth to-day to the street-trumpeters and other butterflies.
• There they bow low, then lay the garlands at their feet, and retire, forming ingeniously pretty groups and figures, while bees and butterflies flit in and out.
• She saw birds flying like butterflies over fields of daisies, and her song grew louder.
• Nowadays, clearly, there is no more need for such care than if they were butterflies.
• It is as though he had to pursue and capture them one by one, like butterflies.
• Birds and butterflies are rarely seen at the present season of the year, not only in the neighbourhood of Jerusalem, but throughout the whole of Syria.
• First they tried for butterflies and captured several fine ones without trouble.
• He seemed to set greater store by them than by his patients, and, from time to time, on coming back from his rides, he brought a quantity of butterflies pinned to his hat brim.
• The boys, as usual, were tempting the trout with false fly or real worm, and I was roaming along the bank, seeking spring flowers, and hunting early butterflies and moths.
• The butterflies, on the other hand, liked the red light only to sleep in.
• The Butterflies were quickening their stroke every moment, and consequently were continuing to increase the distance between the two boats.
• Then I tried to catch the butterflies, and they flew right past my eyes.
• It is the habit, of the Germans especially, to send students into the Alps with a case for flowers, a net for butterflies, and a box for bugs.
• I think you belong right here, in that darling little house, studying butterflies and mounting them so beautifully they look alive.

Similar words containing BUTTERFLIE without suffix s

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