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marbled white

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noun

  1. any butterfly of the satyrid genus Melanargia, with panelled black-and-white wings, but technically a brown butterfly; found in grassland

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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On this site alone, he had tried the high brown fritillary, Scotch argus, small heath, marbled white, grizzled skipper, wood white and chequered skipper.

From The Guardian • Oct. 13, 2020

It shows how the marbled white was absent from the Midlands in the 1980s, but is today found continuously in a northwards line through Nottinghamshire and South Yorkshire.

From The Guardian • Oct. 13, 2020

White’s claims about the return of the marbled white is supported by data from the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme, the world’s longest-running dataset for butterfly distribution.

From The Guardian • Oct. 13, 2020

Lloyd shrugs these locations loose, and instead places a marbled white wall behind his players and gives them the barest props.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 9, 2019

Ours was a long one in the middle and much grander than the rest, because it had a bit of marbled white oil cloth on it for a cloth.

From Elizabeth Visits America by Glyn, Elinor

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