brush-footed butterfly

Questions about brush-footed butterfly

What does brush-footed butterfly mean?

brush-footed butterfly means "medium to large butterflies found worldwide typically having brightly colored wings and much-reduced nonfunctional forelegs carried folded on the breast".

What is another word for brush-footed butterfly?

Close synonyms include nymphalid, nymphalid butterfly, four-footed butterfly. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is brush-footed butterfly a common word?

brush-footed butterfly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.