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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 • flutter like a butterfly • cut and spread open, as in preparation for cooking • talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | ||||
| 57% | 14 | Undergoes metamorphosis from egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to adult butterfly | ||
noun • anglewing butterfly with a comma-shaped mark on the underside of each hind wing | ||||
| 46% | 5 | From the Latin for “ghost, mask”, a caterpillar, tadpole or other immature creature that develops into a different adult form by metamorphosis | ||
noun • the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose | ||||
Holometabolous Lepidopteran Whose Metamorphosis From Caterpillar And Chrysalis Into Adonis Blue Camberwell Beauty Painted Lady Etc Is Metaphorical For Positive Change Rebirth Renewal And Transformation
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