pierid

American  

[pahy-er-id, pahy-er-] / paɪˈɛr ɪd, ˈpaɪ ər- /

adjective

1. belonging or pertaining to the Pieridae, a family of butterflies comprising the whites, sulfurs, etc.

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noun

1. Also called pieridine.  any member of the butterfly family Pieridae.

Etymology

Origin of pierid

1880–85; < New Latin Pieridae, apparently by haplology from *Pierididae, equivalent to Pierid- , stem of Pieris a genus (< Greek Pīerís, singular of Pīerídes a name for the Muses; Pierides ) + -idae -id ²

Example Sentences

Their natural situation will be among the Pierid�, with whose general habit they accord.

From Project Gutenberg

The genus I have now placed it in belongs to the Coliad�, and appears to connect that family with the Pierid�: their distinctions are obviously marked and very constant in all the species I have yet seen, and which are tropical: of these, seven I discovered in Brazil; three or four more are natives of the southern extremity of North America; and Dr. Horsfield has four or five from Java.

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The chrysalides are generally attached by the 'tail,' and further secured by a silken cord round the body, as we have already observed in the case of the Pierid�.

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But our Brimstone Butterfly possesses another very prominent feature in which it differs from all the other British Pierid�, and that is the conspicuous projecting angles of both fore and hind wings.

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In many respects the Pierid� resemble the last species.

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