butterfly

Meaning of butterfly

noun
  1. A flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from moths by their diurnal activity and generally brighter colouring.
  2. A use of surgical tape, cut into thin strips and placed across an open wound to hold it closed.
    butterfly tape
  3. The butterfly stroke.
  4. (in plural) A sensation of excited anxiety felt in the stomach.
    I get terrible butterflies before an exam.
  5. Someone seen as being unserious and (originally) dressed gaudily; someone flighty and unreliable.
verb
  1. To cut (food) almost entirely in half and spread the halves apart, in a shape suggesting the wings of a butterfly.
    Butterfly the chicken before you grill it.
  2. To cut strips of surgical tape or plasters into thin strips, and place across (a gaping wound) to close it.

Information about butterfly

  • The plural form of butterfly is: butterflies.
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Hyphenation of butterfly

but-ter-fly

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
  • butterfly is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

butterfly synonyms

Meaning chat up:

flirt, dally, coquet, coquette, romance, philander, mash

Meaning :

lep

Translation of butterfly

Words that rhyme with butterfly

barfly, jarfly, alderfly, deerfly, derfly, flowerfly, overfly, hoverfly, thunderfly, gorfly, purfly

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