sulphur butterfly

American  

noun

1. sulfur butterfly.

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Etymology

Origin of sulphur butterfly

First recorded in 1875–80

Example Sentences

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sulphur butterfly

Down the dusty road, inches deep in sand, comes a sulphur butterfly, rushing as quick as if hastening to a butterfly-fair.

From The Open Air by Richard Jefferies

The sulphur butterfly comes twice; there is a second brood; but there are some facts that are always new and surprising, however well known.

From The Open Air by Richard Jefferies

By-and-by a sulphur butterfly excited him so that he must run up the broad stone steps with the news.

From Noughts and Crosses Stories, Studies and Sketches by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

“There he goes,” said Harry, all at once starting off full speed after a sulphur butterfly.

From Hollowdell Grange Holiday Hours in a Country Home by George Manville Fenn

It is a sulphur butterfly, who thus comes before the earliest chiffchaff—before the watch begins for the first swallow.

From The Open Air by Richard Jefferies