moth vs butterfly : what is the difference between a moth and a butterfly? vs butterfly
Definitions
noun
- typically crepuscular or nocturnal insect having a stout body and feathery or hairlike antennae
Examples
There are a few plotlines and characters - Sophie's mother in particular - that are somewhat redundant and unnecessary.
Despite the challenges that prevail, our women have 'shouldered' the burdens with great resilience and dignity; and many of the successes that we claim toady, must be credited to our mothers, grandmothers, wives, aunts and sisters.
Gwenhidwy likes to drink a lot, grain alcohol mostly, mixed in great strange mad-scientist concoctions with beef tea, grenadine, cough syrup, bitter belch-gathering infusions of blue scullcap, valerian root, motherwort and lady's-slipper, whatever's to hand really.
Definitions
noun
- diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings
- a swimming stroke in which the arms are thrown forward together out of the water while the feet kick up and down
verb
- talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions
- flutter like a butterfly
- cut and spread open, as in preparation for cooking
Examples
Ladies in Blue," a tribute to the pill-popping entourage that surrounded the "Iron Butterfly," as she was known, recalls the cooing stomp of ABBA; Kate Pierson of the B-52s belts "The Whole Man" as if it's one of her own hits.
Photographs of Ayesha were appearing in all the papers, and the pilgrims even passed advertising hoardings on which the lepidopteral beauty had been painted three times as large as life, beside slogans reading _Our cloths also are as delicate as a butterfly's wing_, or suchlike.
Closely related to each other, this kind of photography will show such things as the development of a flower, or the butterfly emerging from the chrysalis.
