Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of various butterflies of the subfamily Satyridæ, as Hipparchia janira. Also called
satyr . The eyed meadow-brown of the eastern United States is Satyrodes Eurydice.
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Examples
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A silver-washed fritillary – all tawny orange with black cryptic wing texts and flashes of mother-of-pearl – flew in and was immediately mobbed by ringlet and meadow-brown butterflies.
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That was beautiful of the meadow-brown, it was Christian of the meadow-brown, seeing the war to the death that he and Gwen had waged against it at home.
The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea Alfred Ollivant 1900
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Legion is a little word for the butterflies; the dry pastures among the woods are brown with meadow-brown; blues and coppers float in endless succession; all the nations of Xerxes 'army were but a handful to these.
Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies Richard Jefferies 1867
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To entomologists the Daisy is interesting as an attractive flower to insects; for "it is visited by nine hymenoptera, thirteen diptera, three coleoptera, and two lepidoptera -- namely, the least meadow-brown and the common blue butterflies." [
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868
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