danaid butterfly

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   large tropical butterfly with degenerate forelegs and an unpleasant taste

   Synonymsdanaid

   Broaderbutterfly

   Narrowermonarch

   Part ofDanaidae

Questions about danaid butterfly

What does danaid butterfly mean?

danaid butterfly means "large tropical butterfly with degenerate forelegs and an unpleasant taste".

What is another word for danaid butterfly?

Close synonyms include danaid. 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 danaid butterfly a common word?

danaid 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.