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.
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.
His mane is a little threadbare and Mum threatens to bin him calling him moth-eaten!
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.
She had wiggled through a tot-sized aperture in the alcove, and toddled over to a display of butterfly nets four feet away.
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hand can't hit, what the eye can't see. Muhammad Ali
