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danaid

NOUN
  1. large tropical butterfly with degenerate forelegs and an unpleasant taste

How To Use danaid In A Sentence

  • He first constructed a horizontal wheel that he named a Danaide, and later devised another, the Vortex Water Wheel, which he patented in July 1850 and which came to be used extensively.
  • The danaid butterflies, such as the Monarch, are well recognised to be doubly defended from predators by two classes of plant-derived toxins.
  • The play ends with the Danaids retreating into the Argive walls, protected Archive 2009-03-01
  • Danaids are large, robust butterflies that contain some of the longest-lived butterflies in the world.
  • The male danaids have two brushlike structures called hairpencils that are normally tucked into the rear of the abdomen.
  • When the Danaides reach Argos, they entreat King Pelasgus to protect them. Archive 2009-03-01
  • The Danaides murdered their bridegrooms on their wedding night.
  • Monarchs are members of a butterfly family called the Danaids, so named because they feed on members of the milkweed family of plants.
  • He refuses pending the decision of the Argive people, who decide in the favor of the Danaids. Archive 2009-03-01
  • The Ceylon tree nymph is a beautiful silvery white butterfly (2) and is the largest member of the Danaidae family in Sri Lanka.
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