Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A butterfly, Papillo philenor, one of the handsomest of the North American swallowtails.
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Above them butterflies hover, float, alight, sip, and sail away -- the great dark, velvety, pipe-vine swallow-tail _ (Papilio philenor) _, its green-shaded hind wings marked with little white half moons; the yellow and brown, common,
Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891
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The beautiful dark bronzy green butterfly, Papilio philenor, is inedible both in larva and perfect insect, and it is mimicked by the equally dark
Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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Limenitis misippus mimics Danais archippus, 248 ursula mimics Papilio philenor, 248
Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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There is also in the Southern and Western States a dark female form of the yellow Papilio turnus, which in all probability obtains protection from its general resemblance to P. philenor.
Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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The caterpillars of our own black-and-blue pipevine swallowtail (Battus philenor) eat nothing but pipevine leaves.
SFGate: Top News Stories home@sfchronicle.com (Joe Eaton 2010
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