Butterfly

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Monarch butterfly

Description

Any of several thousand species of colorful winged insects of the order Lepidoptera. Butterfly wings have beautiful, often iridescent, colors due to both pigmentation and optical interference.

Synonyms and Related Terms

sommerfugl (Dan., Nor.); Schuppenflügler (Deut.); Schmetterlinge (Deut.); mariposa (Esp.); lépidoptères (Fr.); farfalla (It.); papillo (Lat.); Lepidoptera (Ned.); motyle (Pol.); borboleta (Port.); fjärilar (Sven.)

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