pieris rapae

Questions about pieris rapae

What does pieris rapae mean?

pieris rapae means "toxic green larva of a cabbage butterfly". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for pieris rapae?

Close synonyms include cabbageworm, small white. 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 pieris rapae a common word?

pieris rapae is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.