cabbage white


noun
  1. 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. Tomlinson
  • We have communicated to America the house-fly and the Hessian fly, the "cabbage-white," the small pox, and the cholera.

  • Occasionally a tortoise-shell or cabbage-white butterfly would flutter by.

    Kashmir | Sir Francis Edward Younghusband