cabbage white
noun
any large white butterfly of the genus Pieris, esp the Eurasian species P. brassicae, the larvae of which feed on the leaves of cabbages and related vegetables: family Pieridae
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How to use cabbage white in a sentence
There is the housefly, the lesser cabbage white butterfly, and one or two other little things.
The Sea and the Jungle | H. M. TomlinsonWe have communicated to America the house-fly and the Hessian fly, the "cabbage-white," the small pox, and the cholera.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 303 | VariousOccasionally a tortoise-shell or cabbage-white butterfly would flutter by.
Kashmir | Sir Francis Edward Younghusband
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